"480"^^ . . "ISBN 0-553-08853-X (first edition, hardback)" . . . . "PS3569.T3868 S65 1992" . . . "Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, 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."@en . "Snow Crash"@en . "813/.54 20" . . . "25026617" . .