"One of the most popular sci-fi books of all time . . . It stands as a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement."
–Wired "Stephenson's cult classic has become canon in Silicon Valley, where a host of engineers, entrepreneurs, futurists, and assorted computer geeks . . . still revere
Snow Crash as a remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape."
–Vanity Fair "Hip, surreal, distressingly funny . . . Neal Stephenson is a crafty plotter and a wry writer."
–The Des Moines Register
"[
Snow Crash] not only made the name of its author Neal Stephenson, it elevated him to the status of a technological Nostradamus."
–Open Culture "A cross between
Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's
Vineland . . . This is no mere hyperbole."
–The San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century."
–William Gibson