Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.

"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."
   LOS ANGELES READER

"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole."
   SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."
   

"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."
   THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW