![]() – the original character from the Dioxin Posse graphic novel – the duo work to take down the distributor of Snow Crash, the communications magnate and religious cult leader L. ![]() Aided by a “Kourier” named Yours Truly, or Y.T. The plot of the book focuses on the aptly named Hiro Protagonist, a katana-wielding computer hacker working as the “Deliverator” – i.e., a pizza delivery guy – who stumbles upon a plot to distribute the drug/virus/religion "Snow Crash" to every individual in both the real world and the Metaverse. Edited by Jennifer Hershey on famed sci-fi editor Lou Aronica’s team at Bantam Spectra, Stephenson’s vision of a hyper-capitalist, post-national, arch-libertarian future might be fiction, but it anticipated – and in many ways served as the source code for – much of our contemporary world, from the metaverse to cryptocurrency, mobile computing to augmented reality, and much more. Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is considered, along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, one of the pillars of the cyberpunk genre and one of the most important works of modern science fiction. ![]() “When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set – a “snow crash.” Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line, p. THE ORIGINAL REVISED TYPESETTING MANUSCRIPT FOR SNOW CRASH, WITH NEAL STEPHENSON’S ABUNDANT NOTATIONS, REVISIONS, AND CHANGES ALONGSIDE THOSE OF HIS EDITORS ![]()
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