Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Snow Crash By: Neal Stephenson Narrated by: Jonathan Davis Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins 4.2 (20,654 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. 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). Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverses best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y. 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 lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. 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
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