Title: Snow Crash
Description: 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 now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be taken away. Follow on an adventure with Hiro and YT as they work with the mob to uncover a plot of biblical proportions.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, ready player one, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, open_syllabus_project, American fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, Virtual reality, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Hackers, Computer viruses, Cyberpunk culture, Cyberspace, Sumerian Mythology, Long Now Manual for Civilization
Places: Future America
People: Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Da5id Meier, Juanita Marquez, Dr. Emanuel Lagos, Uncle Enzo, L. Bob Rife, Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff
Time periods: Future