Snow Crash: A NovelNow featuring never-before-seen material, the “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. |
Contents
| 19 | |
Section 2 | 38 |
Section 3 | 70 |
Section 4 | 72 |
Section 5 | 117 |
Section 6 | 127 |
Section 7 | 142 |
Section 8 | 145 |
Section 18 | 259 |
Section 19 | 268 |
Section 20 | 323 |
Section 21 | 326 |
Section 22 | 333 |
Section 23 | 344 |
Section 24 | 355 |
Section 25 | 369 |
Section 9 | 149 |
Section 10 | 153 |
Section 11 | 190 |
Section 12 | 193 |
Section 13 | 194 |
Section 14 | 221 |
Section 15 | 235 |
Section 16 | 242 |
Section 17 | 249 |
Section 26 | 379 |
Section 27 | 384 |
Section 28 | 394 |
Section 29 | 409 |
Section 30 | 443 |
Section 31 | 455 |
Section 32 | 458 |
Section 33 | 463 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aleut Asherah avatar Black Sun boat Bob Rife brain Bruce Lee Burbclave can’t chopper comes couple Crip daemon Dajid Daşid deck Deliverator deuteronomists doggies door Eliot says Enki Eridu face Feds feel feet Fisheye says franchise front fucking glass eye goes goggles going Greater Hong Kong hacker hand head hear Hiro Protagonist Hiro says Hiro's Hong Kong hypercard Inanna inside Jason Juanita katana keep kind Kourier Lagos Lee's Greater Hong Librarian says light look Mafia MetaCop Metaverse miles motorcycle nam-shub nice Nipponese Okay parking pizza poon pulls Raft Rat Thing Raven Raven says Rife's running ship shit side sitting Snow Crash someone sound standing staring Street stuff Sumer Sumerian Sushi sword talking there's trying turns Uncle Enzo says virus Vitaly walks wireheads Y.T. says Yeah