{"product_id":"snow-crash-deluxe-edition","title":"Snow Crash: Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in a gorgeous new hardcover edition featuring never-before-seen material, the \"brilliantly realized\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. \u003ci\u003eHis\u003c\/i\u003e home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvestigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He'll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 059359973X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593599730\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Stephenson, Neal, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Del Rey Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Del Rey Books","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Nov 2022)","offer_id":45657398444229,"sku":"9780593599730","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593599730.jpg?v=1768891343","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/snow-crash-deluxe-edition","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}