Snow Crash By Neal Stephenson

Publisher: Bantam Books, ISBN:0553562614, 1970, 470 pgs.Mass market paperback with scuffing, edgewear and creasing to the spine. The interior is clean & bright with a tight binding. " In a Balkanized America run entirely by corporations, a computer hacker moonlighting as a pizza delivery guy and a tough young female courier take on a glass-knife-wielding Aleut who possesses a nuclear bomb and a mogul planning to use ancient Sumerian texts to rewrite the software in everyone's brains. This cult classic takes on--among other topics--neurolinguistics, online etiquette, televangelism, thrasher culture, corporate and civil bureaucracy, and the legendary antecedents of the Tower of Babel."