Advantages: fast paced, brilliant story Disadvantages: may be too bizarre for some
...Many people regard William Gibson’s Neuromancer as the definitive Cyberpunk Novel. It can be safely assumed that these people haven’t read Snow Crash. What this book achieves and what Neuromancer fails to do, is give you a highly imaginati ...
Advantages: I love the name Hiro Protaganist; well written, and entertaining. Disadvantages: Rather more science than I generally like from my fiction
I'd been told by a number of people that I should give this a go, and I finally gave in to the temptation a couple of weeks ago. And I'm kinda glad I did.
The main character goes by the lovely name of Hiro Protaganist (as he himself says, it's very har ...
Advantages: action packed Disadvantages: un realistic
Snow Crash is a fast-paced, near-future, cyberpunk thriller. Neither its technology (with cybernetic dogs, portable nuclear-powered gatling guns, and ancient Sumerian neuro-linguistic programming), its politics (a libertarian world where the Mafia deliver ...
This was the first of Neal's books i ever read, having been recomended to it by a friend.
Right from the start of the book i was hooked, The characters, world and events are described in wonderful detail and come together in a spectactular conclusion. ...
Advantages: Great original story Disadvantages: I can't find it to read again
...I read Snowcrash by accident. Coincidentally I was sitting in a hotel waiting for it to snow so I could go skiing, although the book has nothing whatsoever to do with skiing or snow.
Hiro Protagonist is a hacker who winds his way through the cyberver ...
