Here’s another one to add to your ‘must watch’ list: according to Deadline, there’s a TV series based on Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash on the way.
The series will be a product of a team-up between Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World screenwriter Michael Bacall, Attack The Block director Joe Cornish and Paramount TV.
Bacall is set to pen the series and serve as a co-showrunner alongside The L Word‘s Angela Robinson, and Frank Marshall will serve as a producer.
Stephenson’s Snow Crash was first published in 1992 by Bantam Books.
Here’s the book’s Amazon.co.uk summary:
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse – cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street – the Metaverse’s main drag – is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus – and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.
Which is really bad news for Hiro – freelance hacker and the Metaverse’s best swordfighter (he wrote the code) – and Y. T. – skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl – because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .
Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.
Upon its release, Snow Crash received generally fantastic reviews from both critics and readers, and has since been cited to have helped influence various aspects of what became the world wide web, as well as programmes used by NASA World Wind and Google Earth.
The book was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1993 and the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1994.
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