num_pages: 440
description: After the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y. T. - skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl - because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.
language: English
title: Snow Crash
titlecomplete: Snow Crash
characters: Y.T., Dr. Emanuel Lagos, Hiro Protagonist, L. Bob Rife, Uncle Enzo, Da5id Meier, Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff, Juanita Marquez
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 273828
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor Novela Extranjera, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Washington State Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Penguin Group