The new Internet, the Metaverse, is basically a form of virtual reality, a shared hallucination if you will, more like a massively multi-player online role-playing game, clearly the inspiration for Second Life (2003), World of Warcraft (2004), and so forth. Suffice it to say that we have a combination of a plausible and chaotic near-future United States with an updated and totally changed Internet (which was not quite yet well-known when the book was written). You can find descriptions of it all over the Web, starting with the Wikipedia entry and branching out from there.
I couldn’t really summarize the book here even if I wanted to - and I don’t want to. So Snow Crash (480 pages) isn’t my favorite, but it’s possibly the most important and influential. And then there are those novels that I haven’t even had time to read yet. That honor would probably go to the massive Cryptonomicon (1168 pages), or possibly Reamde (1055 pages), or maybe Anathem (1010 pages)… it’s so hard to pick! And Seveneves (a mere 880 pages) is also great, though not as good as the first four I mentioned. Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it was time to listen to the audiobook version.īy the way, although I love it, this is not my favorite Stephenson novel.
I had first read Neal Stephenson’s seminal science fiction novel when it came out in 1992, and then again at the end of the millennium, which seemed appropriate.
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