Some great concepts
4 stars
The book ranges a pretty wide variety of topics, probably more interesting to readers who program.
440 pages
English language
Published Oct. 4, 1992 by Bantam Books.
4 stars
(6 reviews)
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.
Robbie A reviewed Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
Review of 'Snow Crash' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
This story had an interesting cyberpunk world, an engaging concept, cool characters, and great writing, so I loved it. I did have a few pet peeves about it, like the fact that anyone who works with code in any way (i.e. programmers/developers) are all always referred to as "hackers" and the idea that all "hackers" have an intrinsic subconscious understanding of binary code, which is definitely not the case. Plus the underage objectification and sex thing with YT wasn't cool—at least it was kept to a minimum, I guess?
Other than that, this was an awesome and very enjoyable story that I would recommend to anyone who likes futuristic fiction.
