![]() ![]() The Story: Sumerian Mythology Meets Cyberpunk Attitude Snow Crash also gave us the computer term “ avatar,” an originally Hindu word now used to describe the appearance of a user in virtual reality.īut enough juicy tidbits. Among other things, Stephenson envisioned a global-positioning computer program (like Google Earth) and an online library with entirely user-generated content (like Wikipedia). Published in 1992, Snow Crash is noteworthy for coming up ideas about the future that actually came to pass in the real world. His first successful novel was Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller in 1988, followed by Snow Crashin 1992, which I’ll be reviewing today. ![]() Neal Stephenson is one of the great sci-fi authors of the modern era, giving us fantastic technologies and visions of the future with a dose of literary quality (which is a rarity in some sci-fi literature, believe me). ![]()
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