First arriving on the scene in 1992 to critical acclaim, this definitive novel of the information age weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between.
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.
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).
He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.
His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords.
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don\'t dare leave their mansions.
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.
Stephenson is author of the bestselling Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age.
First arriving on the scene in 1992 to critical acclaim, this definitive novel of the information age weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between
