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Snow Crash


            
            
             Imagine a world, much like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced, and much more commercial. Set in some near future the world has become a very different place. There's the real world, where America is split up into so many suburban enclaves, almost all absolutely identical and the Federal government is just one small nation-state among many others. Then there is the Metaverse, the internet as it might look in the future, a world that can be accessed through any computer, in which one can move about as an avatar, looking as one wishes. Snow Crash is a look at a possible future and the outcome of our present technology; how we rely heavily on computers for information storage and propagation. With this as a backdrop, Stephenson creates his main characters with curious abilities and histories, and brings together the story of a young man named Hiro Protagonist seeking to save not only his own skin, but the hide of the rest of the world as well. .
             Hiro Protagonist is pizza delivery drivers slash computer hacker and Y.T., a female skateboarding courier, join forces to find out about a new designer drug that can crash hackers and computers. They discover that a religious fanatic named L. Bob Rife has begun to use the Metaverse, which is a futuristic mixture of virtual reality and the internet, to spread a computer virus that affects the minds of hackers and makes victims susceptible to brainwashing. I like a lot of what he imagines in the near future. Another aspect of the novel that I like is Stephenson's ability to point out what's still physically necessary despite cyberspace like couriers and pizza delivery. .
             Even their names are a kind of parody on words. Some of the colorful characters in the book include a character by the name of Raven who is packing a thermonuclear weapon linked to a chip in his head, so that if he gets killed everyone goes up in a nice mushroom cloud.


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