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潰雪

內容簡介

內容簡介 世界上最偉大的駭客在落魄中，機靈的十五歲滑板快遞拯救了他，從此搭檔的二人，捲入幽暗的險惡事端。伊拉克南邊小城埃利都挖掘出的蘇美古物，暗藏某種讓美國聯邦暗地裡與宗教團體勾結的神秘力量。「魅他域」與現實世界的刀光劍影，潛伏著毀滅世界的危機。「潰雪」的出現，暗示著所有瑣碎的線索，將一步步拼湊起一幅完整的陰謀拼圖，迫使駭客與智勇快遞、黑手黨首領、越南軍事專家、香港企業家，不得不開始追查真相，最後展開空前合作，阻止一場屠殺人類心智的腥風血雨。這是一本橫跨現實與虛擬、蘇美古文明與電腦時代的超激鉅作。作者詭譎複雜的佈局，令人拍案叫絕；透過叛逆、刁鑽的兩個主角，整本小說充滿囂張的活力和痛快的節奏。作者用犀利筆調，諷刺而幽默地描繪出郊區中產心態、軟體工程師文化、僵化官僚、各類型偏見，淋漓快感自始至終貫穿全書，讓人欲罷不能一路奔讀到底，以求一探究竟。網路虛擬科幻代表作家尼爾．史蒂芬森預示明日危機力作「潰雪」，橫跨了神話、宗教、歷史、文明、神經學、語言學、和電腦世界的界域，將一切元素包含進故事的發展與敘述中，企圖解開人類自遠古至今，真實世界與虛擬世界兩個世界的創世秘密。經由作者縝密的思考與描述，這浩大工程，沒有遺漏或輕忽任一環節，不但故事說來令人信服，同時也展現作者對歷史的鍾情與深刻研究，在在成為他成就一個偉大故事的動力。One of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous—you’ll recognize it immediatelyOnly once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.Praise for Snow Crash“Snow Crash is 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“Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”—The New York Times Book Review"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hardscience and engineering professors (mostly Pac-10, Big 10, and Big 8 with the occasional wild strain of Ivy). He began his higher education as a physics major, then switched to geography when it appeared that this would enable him to scam more free time on his university’s mainframe computer. When he graduated and discovered, to his perplexity, that there were no jobs for inexperienced physicist-geographers, he began to look into alternative pursuits such as working on cars, unimaginably stupid agricultural labor, and writing novels. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984 and vanished without a trace. His second novel, Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller, came out in 1988 and quickly developed a cult following among water-pollution-control engineers. It was also enjoyed, though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists. Snow Crash was written in the years 1988 through 1991 as the author listened to a great deal of loud, relentless, depressing music. Mr. Stephenson now resides in a comfortable home in the western hemisphere and spends all of his time trying to retrofit an office into its generally dark, unlevel, and asbestos-laden basement so that he can attempt to write more novels. Despite the tremendous amounts of time he devotes to writing, playing with computers, listening to speed metal, Rollerblading, and pounding nails, he is a flawless husband, parent, neighbor, and all-around human being.

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