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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... someone cuts him off on the freeway , and he's never done it — yet . He can handle this . This is doable . He cranks up the orange warning lights to maximum brilliance , puts his headlights on autoflash . He overrides the warning buzzer ...
... someone cuts him off on the freeway , and he's never done it — yet . He can handle this . This is doable . He cranks up the orange warning lights to maximum brilliance , puts his headlights on autoflash . He overrides the warning buzzer ...
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... Someone is shadowing him . Right off his left flank . A person on a skateboard , rolling down the highway right behind him , just as he is laying in his approach vectors to Heritage Boulevard . The Deliverator , in his distracted state ...
... Someone is shadowing him . Right off his left flank . A person on a skateboard , rolling down the highway right behind him , just as he is laying in his approach vectors to Heritage Boulevard . The Deliverator , in his distracted state ...
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... someone says . A woman . He looks up through the distorted frame of the win- dow , now rimmed with a fractal pattern of crystallized safety glass . It is the Kourier talking to him . The Kourier is not a man , it is a young woman . A ...
... someone says . A woman . He looks up through the distorted frame of the win- dow , now rimmed with a fractal pattern of crystallized safety glass . It is the Kourier talking to him . The Kourier is not a man , it is a young woman . A ...
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... someone forgot to develop . It's a squat black pyramid with the top cut off . It has one single door - since this is all imaginary , there are no regulations dictating the num- ber of emergency exits . There are no guards , no signs ...
... someone forgot to develop . It's a squat black pyramid with the top cut off . It has one single door - since this is all imaginary , there are no regulations dictating the num- ber of emergency exits . There are no guards , no signs ...
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Contents
19 | |
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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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