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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. ‘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. Stephenson was prophetic with his corporate satire.

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