Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson

Categories: Literature & Fiction

In a future Los Angeles carved into corporate franchises and walled city-states, Hiro delivers pizza for a living, defends it with a pair of samurai swords, and lives in a rented storage unit. Online, in the Metaverse, he's a legendary hacker. When a strange new drug called Snow Crash starts taking down his fellow hackers, in the virtual world and in real life, Hiro teams up with Y.T., a fearless teenage skateboard courier. The trail leads all the way back to ancient Sumer and the origins of language.

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• Tim Ferriss: “Snow Crash is amazing”
• Mark Zuckerberg: “anyone who's interested in this space would read Ready Player One and Snow Crash. I think Rainbow's End is one that is maybe not as commonly cited, but I think is maybe the augmented reality sort of equivalent of some of the seminal works that talk about virtual reality.”
• Bill Gurley: “Years ago, I read Snow Crash when it came out... Thought it was the best thing that I had ever consumed”
• Naval Ravikant: “Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There's nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own.”