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24 alternatives to Snow Crash

This did to books what The Matrix did to movies.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Snow Crash launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Snow Crash▲127

   A virus, a drug, and a religion

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Snow Crash▲4

   Neal Stephenson's classic

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Do The Movies Have a Future?▲62

   A call to arms to celebrate movies

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Lord of the Flies▲63

   Some call it the "Hunger Games before Hunger Games"

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson▲3

   Philipp Moehring's Fave Book on The Twenty Minute VC

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Back to the Future▲77

   Novelization of the Back to the Future film

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Snow Crash▲8

   10 Fiction Books for Founders and Business Entreprenuers

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   What "Disruption" Really Means▲152

   An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Road to Relativity▲55

    The History and Meaning of Einstein's Masterpiece

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    In the Blink of an Eye▲55

    A perspective on film editing

    2016 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Decoded▲62

    The science behind why we buy

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Fahrenheit 451 ▲21

    A Book About Books

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Resilience ▲55

    Why things bounce back

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable▲87

    The extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Ender's Game▲93

    The enemy's gate is down

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Shape of Time▲62

    Remarks on the history of things

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The Throwback Special▲61

    A Novel

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern ▲55

    The story of the greatest book discovery of all time

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Moonwalking with Einstein▲72

    The story and science of memory.

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    The Dark Forest▲71

    Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Unleashing the ideavirus▲65

    Turn your ideas into epidemics

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Black Box Thinking▲66

    Why most people never learn from their mistakes--but some do

    2015 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    2017 · its alternatives →

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