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. |
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... lights burbles and churns across the front , where the grille would be if this were an air - breathing car . The orange light looks like a gasoline fire . It comes in through people's rear windows , bounces off their rearview mirrors ...
... lights burbles and churns across the front , where the grille would be if this were an air - breathing car . The orange light looks like a gasoline fire . It comes in through people's rear windows , bounces off their rearview mirrors ...
Page 10
... light down at the bottom , like heat lightning in tall clouds . This is not that kind of fire . It is the kind of ... lights go red . Red . A repet . itive buzzer begins to sound . The LED readout on 10 NEAL STEPHENSON.
... light down at the bottom , like heat lightning in tall clouds . This is not that kind of fire . It is the kind of ... lights go red . Red . A repet . itive buzzer begins to sound . The LED readout on 10 NEAL STEPHENSON.
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... lights to maximum brilliance , puts his headlights on autoflash . He overrides the warning buzzer , jams the stereo over to Taxiscan , which cruises all the taxi - driver frequencies listening for interesting traffic . Can't understand ...
... lights to maximum brilliance , puts his headlights on autoflash . He overrides the warning buzzer , jams the stereo over to Taxiscan , which cruises all the taxi - driver frequencies listening for interesting traffic . Can't understand ...
Page 13
... lights come up on the wind- shield : the perimeter security of the Deliverator's vehicle has been breached . Someone is shadowing him . Right off his left flank . A person on a skateboard , rolling down the highway right behind him ...
... lights come up on the wind- shield : the perimeter security of the Deliverator's vehicle has been breached . Someone is shadowing him . Right off his left flank . A person on a skateboard , rolling down the highway right behind him ...
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... lights , squealing his contact patches . The fastest thing on the road . Naturally , the Kourier would choose him to latch onto . No need to get rattled . With the shortcut through TMAWH , he will have plenty of time . He passes a ...
... lights , squealing his contact patches . The fastest thing on the road . Naturally , the Kourier would choose him to latch onto . No need to get rattled . With the shortcut through TMAWH , he will have plenty of time . He passes a ...
Contents
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Section 2 | 70 |
Section 3 | 72 |
Section 4 | 145 |
Section 5 | 153 |
Section 6 | 180 |
Section 7 | 193 |
Section 8 | 194 |
Section 16 | 333 |
Section 17 | 355 |
Section 18 | 369 |
Section 19 | 379 |
Section 20 | 384 |
Section 21 | 394 |
Section 22 | 409 |
Section 23 | 443 |
Section 9 | 221 |
Section 10 | 235 |
Section 11 | 242 |
Section 12 | 249 |
Section 13 | 259 |
Section 14 | 323 |
Section 15 | 326 |
Section 24 | 455 |
Section 25 | 458 |
Section 26 | 463 |
Section 27 | 469 |
Section 28 | 471 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aleut Asherah avatar Black Sun boat Bob Rife brain Bruce Lee Burbclave chopper comes couple Crip Da5id daemon 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 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 Sumerian Sushi sword talking there's trying turns Uncle Enzo Uncle Enzo says virus Vitaly walks What's window wireheads Y.T. says Yeah