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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired)
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzos CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thats 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 . . . youll recognize it immediately.… (mehr)
davesmind: Although Snow Crash is a classic of cyberpunk, I think Ready Player One has a more captivating story - especially if you played video games in the 80's
jbgryphon: RPO's OASIS owes it's existence as much to Neil Stephenson's Metaverse as to the miriad of geek universes that are included in it.
fulner: Ready player one is what Snow crash should have been. A story focused primarily on the inter-personal-relationships of others "online" in a futuristic version of the internet in which we live in a 3-D world as the real world around us crashes and burns.
The biggest difference is Ready Player One Doesn't Suck. Still somewhat heretical, but its heresy can be easily dismissed on that the protagonist is an atheist.… (mehr)
pammab: To explore the possibilities of virtual reality in the near future. Duane's is much more traditional and pro-corporate fantasy; Stephenson's is more humor-based anti-corporate cyberpunk.
Also angesprochen hat mich der Roman ja von der Rückseite her: Der Protagonist heißt Hiro Protagonist, “Starprogrammierer und Pizzakurier”, letzter freiberuflicher Hacker und bester Schwertkämpfer der Welt - also genau was für mich. Die Geschichte ist abgefahren und bewegt sich zwischen der sumerischen Sprache und Programmiersprachen, vorschriftlichen Tontafeln und Binärcode, Bibliotheken und dem “Metaversum” - einer Art Second Life, wie es im Jahr 1994 gedacht wurde. Dieser SF-Roman ist noch nicht von der Zeit eingeholt worden. Und spannend ist er auch noch. ( )
Hiro Protagonist (who has chosen his own name, of course) turns out to be entertaining company, and Mr. Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific.
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snow n. . . . 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
crash v....--intr. . . . 5. To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy. ---The American Heritage Dictionary
virus. . . . [L.virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odor or taste.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2.Patha. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them. . . . 3.fig. A moral or intellectual poison, or poisonous influence. --The Oxford English Dictionary
Widmung
Erste Worte
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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here.
Zitate
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HIRO PROTAGONIST Last of the freelance hackers Greatest sword fighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation Specializing in software-related intel (music, movies & microcode)
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
"Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
Letzte Worte
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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired)
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzos CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thats 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 . . . youll recognize it immediately.
Dieser SF-Roman ist noch nicht von der Zeit eingeholt worden.
Und spannend ist er auch noch. ( )