Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier.
Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.īut 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). Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used Condition: Very Good US 8.00 Convert currency US 4.40 Shipping Within U.S.A. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. Snow Crash Stephenson, Neal Published by Brilliance Audio, 2012 ISBN 10: 1455883700 ISBN 13: 9781455883707 Seller: The Book Corner, Beaverton, U.S.A. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. Book Description: Now in a gorgeous new hardcover edition 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 innovatorsHiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see.
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