Near-future America has disintegrated from a nation state to a patchwork quilt of retailing franchises (run by organizations like the Mafia), gated estates known as 'burbclaves', multi-lane freeways and vast airports. Those who can, spend long periods of time in virtual reality. In the real world, Stephenson's hero/protagonist, the Nipponese-American Hiro Protagonist, is a pizza delivery boy turned part-time intel hacker and concert promoter; in the Metaverse, the vast virtual reality domain where millions hang out via their computers, Hiro is one of the kings of the castle, a master samurai swordsman who wrote much of the code on which the Metaverse runs. While hanging out at The Black Sun, the Metaverse's coolest club, he is offered a new cyber-drug called Snow Crash and is soon plunged into a surreal world where billionaire businessmen plot domination of both reality and the Metaverse and flotillas of refugees from Asia head for the shores of California. His only ally amid the madness seems to be Y.T., a teenage skateboarding courier who rides the freeways by harpooning passing cars and dragging herself along in their wakes.

Precis-defying in its plot, Snow Crash takes such apparently diverse subjects as the philosophy of computing, Sumerian mythology, Biblical criticism, conspiracy theories, medical virology and linguistics and weaves them into a hectic narrative of pursuit and paranoia. Owing as much to the post-modern fiction of writers like Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo as it does to cyberpunk SF, Stephenson's novel is a book that takes all the ideas about the internet and virtual reality current in the early 1990s and projects them into a weird future of his own imagining. Very funny and wildly energetic, it is an exceptional novel. Stephenson continues to write highly challenging and inventive fiction, both inside and outside the SF genre, but he has still not surpassed Snow Crash for sheer originality and dazzle.

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