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Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be taken away. Follow on an adventure with Hiro and YT as they work with the mob to uncover a plot of biblical proportions.
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Epic, contemporary, relentless and cool.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Neal Stephenson
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Hayakawa Books, E-Penguin general
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780593599730
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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as *Wired*. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a m
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