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Written by Neal Stephenson - Audio book performed by Jonathan Davis - Abridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (August 2001)

"Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." --The New York Times Book Review

"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole." --San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Fast forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." --William Gibson

"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel." --Los Angeles Reader

From the opening sentence of this genre-defining, cyberpunk novel, the listener is plunged into the not-too-distant future. Here, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. So when his best friend freaks-out on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, it's Hiro to the rescue.

About the Author: Neal Stephenson comes from a family of scientists and professors, with his own background in physics and geography. He has published seven novels and has written for magazines such as Wired and Time. He devotes his time to writing, parenting, and of course, computers.

His bestselling Cryptonomicon was published by Dove Audio in January 2000.