# Snow Crash

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- Book: [Snow Crash](https://www.bookquiver.com/neal-stephenson/snow-crash) ([Snow Crash.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/neal-stephenson/snow-crash.md))
- Authors: [Neal Stephenson](https://www.bookquiver.com/neal-stephenson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-318-1
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2011-06-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality. Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y. T. - skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl - because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . . Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.