This weeks pick is a book - you know those analog 1 thingies that doesn’t require batteries.
My pick is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and this is quite possibly the best science fiction novel I have ever read.
Snow Crash is set in the early 21st century where we follow Hiro Protagonist and a young girl nicknamed Y.T. 2 through an epic tale that mixes together Sumerian culture, virtual reality, religion, love, computer viruses and sword fighting.
The main theme of the book is a computer virus called Snow Crash that begins to infect humans. To explain how this transition from machine to flesh is possible Neal Stephenson uses the somewhat controversial 3 concept of Julian Jaynes Bicameral Mind Theory.
The attention to detail in this book is phenomenal as is the writing - I guarantee that if you first pick up Snow Crash, you won’t be able to put it down again before you have read the last page - and then you’ll wish there were more chapters to be read.
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If you prefer digital you can get it from Audible.com or from [iTunes](http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=2621833&s=143458 ↩︎
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Short for Yours Truly ↩︎
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I find the theories described in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind very believable - i.e. it just makes sense ↩︎
