In the name of Allah the Merciful

Snow Crash: A Novel

Neal Stephenson, 0553380958, 059359973X, 978-0553380958, 9780553380958, 978-0593599730, 9780593599730, B000FBJCJE

10 $

English | 2003 | PDF | 2 MB | 407 Pages

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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.