Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - The wildly entertaining book that invented the Metaverse!

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Hiro Protagonist is a self-described hacker working as a pizza-delivery driver and living in a storage unit at LAX. He lives in a US that has been fully corporatized - from Judge Bob’s Judicial System to Pastor Wayne’s Pearly Gates.

To get away, Hiro spends much of his free-time in the Metaverse, where he wrote many of the subroutines that underpin the virtual world. One of his hacker friends, Da5id, is given a new virtual drug called Snow Crash that not only crashes his computer, but also destroys his brain in the real world. Hiro (and a hilarious cadre of friends) are drawn ever deeper into the worldwide conspiracy that is spilling out of the virtual world to threaten the real world.

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• Related books we recommend:
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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