Snow Crash

About the book

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.