Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences...
2) Snow crash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Incorporated, but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that is striking down hackers everywhere, he races through a search-and-destroy mission to find the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The...