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Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a thrilling cyberpunk novel set in a near-future world where society is dominated by corporate franchises and virtual reality. The story follows Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and pizza delivery driver, as he uncovers a new virtual drug that has real-world, dangerous consequences. Blending high-paced action with social commentary, this novel explores themes of technology, culture, and the power of information.
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Snow Crash

In the not-too-distant future, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In this mind-altering 21st-century adventure, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior in the metaverse and helps a friend who freaks out on a new designer drug called Snow Crash. Abridged.

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The 30th anniversary edition of the modern classic that popularised the term 'metaverse', exploring (in an eerily prescient way) computer science, the advance of technology, wealth inequality, politics and philosophy.

In the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons - there is a new drug available: Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, it also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.

This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241629833

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Viking

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 576

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Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Neal Stephenson Penguin Books Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction

About the Author

Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall- or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform.

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