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Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.Like many of Stephenson's other novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy.Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh that "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' ". 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.The book presents the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. According to characters in the book, the goddess Asherah is the personification of a linguistic virus, similar to a computer virus. The god Enki created a counter-program which he called a nam-shub that

Who reads Snow Crash?

Author

Stephenson, Neal

Publisher

Gardners Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140230215

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (888 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13