6/12/2023 0 Comments Snow crash graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() When he enters the virtual building, a random stranger offers him a program called “Snow Crash”. To do this, he enters the Metaverse – a virtual reality world – but ends up returning to the headquarters of his old hacker buddies. She somehow manages to deliver it on time, which impresses the Mafia.Ī few days later, with no car left and his Mafia job just a memory, Hiro focuses on one of his other sidelines, gathering random information for a central database. With only a couple of minutes left on the pizza box’s electronic timer, Y.T. Hiro tries to shake her but then they both run into trouble and Hiro ends up crashing his car. A teenaged skateboard-riding courier called Y.T., who works for the RadiKS corporation and gets around by car-surfing using a magnetic harpoon. Not by the police ( they don’t exist), but by a “kourier”. And, part-time hacker, katana enthusiast and Mafia pizza delivery guy Hiro Protagonist is barrelling through them at a ridiculous speed in his car because if he doesn’t deliver a pizza within the next few minutes, the Mafia will not be pleased. The country consists of lots of small “burbclaves” and “franchulates”, which are territories and outposts of various groups and organisations. Snow Crash begins in a futuristic version of America that has no real central government. This is the 2011 Penguin (UK) paperback reprint of “Snow Crash” (1992) that I read. ![]()
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