Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993 and the Arthur C. I have probably spent more hours coding during the production of this work than I did actually writing it, even though it eventually turned away from the original graphic concept.' 'it became clear that the only way to make the Mac do the things we needed was to write a lot of custom image-processing software. Snow Crash : A Novel by Neal Stephenson (2000, Trade Paperback) 21 product ratings About this product Brand new 14.45 New (other) 8.99 Pre-owned 6.11 Make an offer: Pre-owned Stock photo Brand new: Lowest price 14. 1 not verified in body In his 1999 essay 'In the Beginning. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy. In the author's acknowledgments (in some editions), Stephenson recalls: Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Stephenson originally planned Snow Crash as a computer-generated graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tony Sheeder. Now in a gorgeous new hardcover edition featuring never-before-seen material, the brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough.

Stephenson has also mentioned that Julian Jaynes' book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh 'When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set-a 'snow crash ' '. Was the Command Line', Stephenson explained the title of the novel as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Macintosh computer. Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverses best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y.

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