I finished Snow Crash the night before last.
I must say it was an amazing book. I was totally enthralled. Its based in a cyberpunk type of setting in a corporat-ized United States. The government barely exists anymore. The country is more or less run around several different corporate franchise chains including Pizza delivery, Churches, and living units. The author paints a very vivid picture of the surroundings and has his own version of virtual reality called the Metaverse where people gather online all over the world. Similar to our modern day MMORPG’s. Considering it was written between 1989 and 1991, I’m amazed at how much of it is still quite dead on accurate. In fact, I thought it was a very recent novel until I finished and read the colophon in the back.
Someone unleashed a virus that exists in the Metaverse and also in reality and its spreading like wildfire. Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and pizza delivery agent, is forced into discovering the virus’ origins and how to stop it.
In the course of reading the book, several people who saw me with it, approached me to tell me how much they enjoyed it or heard what a good book it was. These are not just computer people mind you, several of them were specifically noted that they are not very much into computers and were surprised how much they liked the novel.
Go check it out!
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
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