Neal Stephenson

 NJ Dick's writing pre-sages things like virtual reality, birthed the cyberpunk movement with an obvious influence on William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash as well as Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net. Where would the Wachowskis ...

 MA Nope, at least in the near term, and Snow Crash explains why. We may be nearing the point where microprocessors and co-processors are able to render real-time virtual reality to the degree Stephenson described, albeit probably not with the ...

 India - Dec 17, 2008 But in books like William Gibson's 1984 Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's 1992 Snow Crash, part of the action takes place inside a global virtual reality ...

 UK - Dec 17, 2008 But in books like William Gibson's 1984 Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's 1992 Snow Crash, part of the action takes place inside a global virtual reality ...

Neal Stephenson became a hero to the science-fiction world in 1992 with Snow Crash, a jazzy, funny, prescient dystopic novel about a Mafia pizza-delivery boy caught up in a plot that crossed ancient cultures with virtual reality. ...

By Lisa Whelan Weblo is a one of several emerging web-based social networking sites that revolves around a “Metaverse”. In his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson coined the term “Metaverse” to refer to the virtual reality-based Internet ...