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. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)