Snow CrashEnter 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 that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T. Together,

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