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En el futuro cercano, los americanos sólo destacan haciendo cuatro cosas: música, películas, programas... y repartir pizza en menos de treinta minutos. En el mundo real, Hiro Protagonist trabaja de repartidor para Pizzas Cosa Nostra Inc., pero en el Metaverso es un príncipe guerrero. Y en el Metaverso se enfrenta con algo aún más terrible que la posibilidad de llegar tarde a una entrega: el enigma de un virus que amenaza con provocar el infocalipsis. En muy contadas ocasiones aparece un escritor que desafía cualquier tipo de comparación y cuya originalidad es capaz de redefinir nuestra forma de mirar el mundo. Neal Stephenson es uno de estos escritores, y Snow Crash la novela con la que ha revolucionado la ciencia ficción. Es una novela generosa, ágil y tremendamente divertida que ganó de inmediato el carácter de libro de culto en la red y saltó inevitablemente a las listas de best-sellers .… (más)
davesmind: Although Snow Crash is a classic of cyberpunk, I think Ready Player One has a more captivating story - especially if you played video games in the 80's
jbgryphon: RPO's OASIS owes it's existence as much to Neil Stephenson's Metaverse as to the miriad of geek universes that are included in it.
fulner: Ready player one is what Snow crash should have been. A story focused primarily on the inter-personal-relationships of others "online" in a futuristic version of the internet in which we live in a 3-D world as the real world around us crashes and burns.
The biggest difference is Ready Player One Doesn't Suck. Still somewhat heretical, but its heresy can be easily dismissed on that the protagonist is an atheist.… (más)
pammab: To explore the possibilities of virtual reality in the near future. Duane's is much more traditional and pro-corporate fantasy; Stephenson's is more humor-based anti-corporate cyberpunk.
This is the first Neal Stephenson novel I have read, and it's a joyful mess of a story.
It's a cyberpunk novel from 1992, and the way it portrays the internet (making it a virtual reality interface) still feels relevant and entertaining today, although some details are off (particularly how Stephenson seems to assume that full access to it will be basically reserved to a technological or social elite, and that most information will cost money). It's also fast-paced, epic and, above all, it has some very interesting speculative ideas about the nature of language and Sumerian mythology. It also has some sharp satire of globalization before it was actually a thing.
Why is it a mess? Well, it is not clear what it wants to be. It has a lot of action, but plot advance often comes in the form of talking heads speculating about ideas. The action part and the deep speculative part just do not seem to mix very well, and although I enjoyed the first I would have liked more of the second. Y.T.'s involvement with the plot is a bit far-fetched. It's just like the author decided the story needed a female protagonist to act as a counterpart to Hiro. And she's a great character and her parts of the novel are a lot of fun to read, it's just that her relationship with the main plot is quite forced.
Despite the problems, the novel was always interesting and entertaining to read. Often a flawed but ambitious effort can have more to offer than a more polished but safer one. So for that reason, even though I probably should give it four stars, I'll give it five. ( )
Wahnsinnig viel Wissen - über Programmieren, Geschichte, die Bibel... - kombiniert mit einer grandiosen Voraussicht. Leider manchmal etwas zu ausführlich und die Szenen im Metaverse teilweise arg brutal. ( )
Fascinating world and very nerdy a book that i didnt want to put down. A great story that kept me engaged and excited to find out what happens next. ( )
Excellent book even a couple of decades since first publication. Be forewarned that the pacing of the narrative is a little frenetic. But once you get used to it, it is a very fun ride. ( )
Hiro Protagonist (who has chosen his own name, of course) turns out to be entertaining company, and Mr. Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific.
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snow n. . . . 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
crash v....--intr. . . . 5. To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy. ---The American Heritage Dictionary
virus. . . . [L.virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odor or taste.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2.Patha. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them. . . . 3.fig. A moral or intellectual poison, or poisonous influence. --The Oxford English Dictionary
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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here.
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HIRO PROTAGONIST Last of the freelance hackers Greatest sword fighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation Specializing in software-related intel (music, movies & microcode)
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
"Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
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En el futuro cercano, los americanos sólo destacan haciendo cuatro cosas: música, películas, programas... y repartir pizza en menos de treinta minutos. En el mundo real, Hiro Protagonist trabaja de repartidor para Pizzas Cosa Nostra Inc., pero en el Metaverso es un príncipe guerrero. Y en el Metaverso se enfrenta con algo aún más terrible que la posibilidad de llegar tarde a una entrega: el enigma de un virus que amenaza con provocar el infocalipsis. En muy contadas ocasiones aparece un escritor que desafía cualquier tipo de comparación y cuya originalidad es capaz de redefinir nuestra forma de mirar el mundo. Neal Stephenson es uno de estos escritores, y Snow Crash la novela con la que ha revolucionado la ciencia ficción. Es una novela generosa, ágil y tremendamente divertida que ganó de inmediato el carácter de libro de culto en la red y saltó inevitablemente a las listas de best-sellers .
It's a cyberpunk novel from 1992, and the way it portrays the internet (making it a virtual reality interface) still feels relevant and entertaining today, although some details are off (particularly how Stephenson seems to assume that full access to it will be basically reserved to a technological or social elite, and that most information will cost money). It's also fast-paced, epic and, above all, it has some very interesting speculative ideas about the nature of language and Sumerian mythology. It also has some sharp satire of globalization before it was actually a thing.
Why is it a mess? Well, it is not clear what it wants to be. It has a lot of action, but plot advance often comes in the form of talking heads speculating about ideas. The action part and the deep speculative part just do not seem to mix very well, and although I enjoyed the first I would have liked more of the second. Y.T.'s involvement with the plot is a bit far-fetched. It's just like the author decided the story needed a female protagonist to act as a counterpart to Hiro. And she's a great character and her parts of the novel are a lot of fun to read, it's just that her relationship with the main plot is quite forced.
Despite the problems, the novel was always interesting and entertaining to read. Often a flawed but ambitious effort can have more to offer than a more polished but safer one. So for that reason, even though I probably should give it four stars, I'll give it five. ( )