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Alfred University : School of Art and Design Among The Best Cyberpunk Novels: 'Snow Crash' What follows is a quote from ‘Snow Crash’ that has multiple levels of meaning when applied to the entire book: “She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not supposed to understand her. That’s not what she’s after…She doesn’t want you to understand her. She knows that’s impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.” ‘Snow Crash’ is a cyberpunk novel written by Neal Stephenson and published in 1992. The setting is the Los Angeles area, though technically it does not exist as a city in this future. The story follows the exploits of the freelance hacker Hiro Protagonist as he loses his job as a pizza delivery driver for the Mafia (even this organization is hyper-corporate) and joins forces with a skateboard courier girl named Y.T. Hiro and Y.T. learn of a new virus called “Snow Crash” that can affect computers and offline meat-brains. The novel is one of the best satiric books in science fiction and in all of English literature.

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