Snow Crash (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Neal Stephenson
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: The twenty-first century
- Setting: California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, Twenty-first century, California, West, U.S., Drugs, Computers, Viruses
- Locales: California
The Plot
In Neal Stephenson’s cyberspace, called the Metaverse, the 120 million richest people in the world conduct their pleasure and business blithely unaware that L. Bob Rife, the owner of the fiber- optic network they all use, is plotting their domination. Meanwhile, Hiro Protagonist, a hacker who wrote some of the earliest software for the Metaverse, prowls about looking for intelligence to sell in an information-overloaded age. Hiro has a debt to pay: He owes the Mafia-run CosaNostra, the twenty-first century version of Domino’s Pizza, the cost of a new delivery car....
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