Snow Crash

Synopsis

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.