Snow Crash
Los Angeles, heute, morgen, in der nahen Zukunft: Hiro Protagonist ist Pizzalieferant in Diensten von Onkel Enzos Cosa Nostra Pizza, einem Mafia Unternehmen, das jedem Anrufer verspricht, in genau dreißig Minuten - keine Minute länger - liegt die dampfende Pizza vor seinen Augen.Ein normaler...
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Los Angeles, heute, morgen, in der nahen Zukunft: Hiro Protagonist ist Pizzalieferant in Diensten von Onkel Enzos Cosa Nostra Pizza, einem Mafia Unternehmen, das jedem Anrufer verspricht, in genau dreißig Minuten - keine Minute länger - liegt die dampfende Pizza vor seinen Augen.Ein normaler schneller Pizzaservice? Eigentlich ja - mit dem feinen Unterschied: Wer die Pizza auch nur eine Minute zu spät bringt, wird getötet.Hiro Protagonist liebt diese Art von Nervenkitzel - und liebt daher seinen Job als Pizzalieferant, denn er ist einer der letzten wirklichen Helden, der letzte freiberufliche Hacker und größte virtuelle Schwertkämpfer aller Zeiten.
Bald kommt Hiro einer Verschwörung auf die Spur, die in der realen Welt genauso wie im virtuellen Raum immer mehr Todesopfer fordert. Hiro kann die drohende Infokalypse verhindern - doch das kann ihn das Leben kosten.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B0085N6NA0
Publish date: 28-01-2010
Publisher: Audible.de
Minutes: 19
Edition language: Deutsch
Neuromancer was the first cyberpunk novel I read, but my favourite is Snow Crash. It takes a humourous twist on a cpunk story that I found refreshing, right down to the main character of the story, Hiro Protagonist. Creative and whimsical, this is not a dark tale like most. He also creates some u...
A friend recommended Neal Stephenson to me with the caveat that I would want to start with one book and, if not avoid, treat the other without the rose-tinted lenses of hype that color it. Flash forward to a used bookstore two weeks later. Both books staring at me from the sf/fantasy shelves. I didn...
I can see why people love this book and why it's a genre classic, because it had some truly interesting ideas about culture, language, science, and religion, but ultimately the execution failed to compel me. I was frequently bored by the many infodumps and flat, dull characters. It also didn't age...
A classic of science fiction and cyber punk, this is the first Neal Stepenson I've read. It had some impressively prescient ideas for when it was published in the early 90s, but I'm not sure when this book was mean to be set. Someone reading this in 1995 would have found this even more fantastical t...
Neal Stephenson's characters and I seem to share quite a few interests (some of which are, admittedly, not for everybody). Though Snow Crash seems to be Stephenson's most popular book, I wouldn't give it the kind of universal recommendation status merited by the likes of Zodiac. However, I think it ...