Informationen zum Autor Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age , Zodiac , Cryptonomicon , Quicksilver, The Confusion , The System of the World , REAMDE , Anathem , Seveneves , Fall: or Dodge in Hell , and Termination Shock , as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line . He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform. Klappentext Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' ( Quicksilver , The Confusion and The System of the World ) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon , The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash , Zodiac , Anathem and Reamde . He lives in Seattle, Washington. Zusammenfassung The Metaverse is cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar.

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Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform.

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Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Zusammenfassung
The Metaverse is cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar.