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Snow Crash
Literature · 1992
Neal Stephenson
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Literature 1992

Snow Crash

cyberpunk maximalismMetaverse feverSumerian virus myth
Author
Neal Stephenson
Year
1992
Region
United States
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
Synopsis

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...

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cyberpunk maximalism cyberpunk maximalismMetaverse fever
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Neal Stephenson, 1992 — Snow Crash

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...

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Lets the power thread settle into a deeper literature form.
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Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...
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