Description
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.
But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state).
Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
From Us:
If you like fun techno-adventures, this is a great book. It starts off with our protagonist, Hiro Protagonist (yes, that’s his name) as he is delivering pizzas in his black super powered delivery vehicle, which incidentally is owned by the mob. From there the story gets wild! Not only is this a great sci fi adventure set in a not so unlikely future, but it also delves back into history and explores the origins of language. The characters are stunning in this book, and the settings are just as crazy and compelling. This is one of my favorite books of all time.
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