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Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. Penguin Books Limited, Fiction - 448 pages. 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. If a 14-year-old told me theyd read and enjoyed 'Snow Crash,' and didnt seem to be lying, I would assume they were one of those kids who is very ahead of their age, probably taking an advanced math course or something. Liz If hes a very mature 14-year-old boy, I guess. 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). To answer questions about Snow Crash, please sign up.
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.
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