Snow Crash

Snow Crash is a fast, funny cyberpunk adventure set in a near-future America where traditional government has splintered into corporate franchises and private city-states. The story follows Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and swordsman who splits his life between gritty streets and the Metaverse, a fully immersive virtual world where reputation, code, and power are tightly linked.

When a new threat called Snow Crash begins spreading, it hits on two fronts at once: it is a drug in the physical world and a virus in the digital one. Hiro teams up with Y.T., a fearless teenage courier with a talent for surviving chaos, to trace where it came from and who benefits. Their investigation turns into a high-speed chase through tech, ancient myth, and the mechanics of language itself, with the central idea that information can be weaponized at the deepest level, not just in computers, but in human minds.