From the opening sentence of this genre-defining cyberpunk novel, the listener is plunged into the not-too-distant future. Here, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. So when his best friend freaks out on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, it's Hiro to the rescue. This is mind-altering, 21st-century adventure that interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to glimpses of a postmodern society on the verge of collapse -- a porthole into a future so bizarre it just may be possible.
- ISBN10 1586211137
- ISBN13 9781586211134
- Publish Date 1 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Audiobook
- Duration 18 hours
- Language English