Recommended Age:
16
+
Best for independent readers who enjoy fast-paced, immersive cyberpunk adventures with character-driven narratives.
About the Book
In a near-future America where the federal government has collapsed and corporations rule franchised city-states, pizza delivery driver and hacker Hiro Protagonist investigates a new drug called Snow Crash that can crash the human mind like software, tracing its origins to a Sumerian linguistic virus with apocalyptic implications. Fast, funny, and intellectually dazzling, the novel blends linguistics, mythology, and cyberpunk action. A wildly inventive and influential satire of capitalism, technology, and media.
Content Ratings
💡
Moderate Themes
The book explores the dissolution of governmental authority, corporate feudalism, religious and linguistic control of human minds, and the exploitation of minors in a criminal economic system.
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Moderate Violence
Action sequences with sword combat, motorcycle chases, and criminal enforcement feature frequent violence. Deaths occur.
Engagement:
Genre:
Science Fiction
Published:
1992
Page Count:
440
