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** To be fair, the quip under the page pic of ''Snow Crash'' protagonist [[Punny Name|Hiro]] [[Meaningful Name|Protagonist's]] avatar (yes, that's his real name) is inaccurate as Hiro is just as badass IRL as he is in the Metaverse.

* The William Gibson book ''[[Count Zero]]'' (from the same universe as ''[[Neuromancer]]'') is probably the [[Trope Maker]] at least as far as the [[Cyberpunk]] genre is concearned; it was published in 1986, ''[[Snow Crash]]'' in 1992.

{{quote| A square of cyberspace directly in front of him flipped sickeningly and he found himself in a pale blue graphic that seemed to represent a very spacious apartment, low shapes of furniture sketched in hair-fine lines of blue neon. A woman stood in front of him, a sort of glowing cartoon squiggle of a woman, the face a brown smudge. "I'm Slide," the figure said, hands on its hips ... [She] gestured, a window suddenly snapping into existence behind her. }}

{{quote|A square of cyberspace directly in front of him flipped sickeningly and he found himself in a pale blue graphic that seemed to represent a very spacious apartment, low shapes of furniture sketched in hair-fine lines of blue neon. A woman stood in front of him, a sort of glowing cartoon squiggle of a woman, the face a brown smudge. "I'm Slide," the figure said, hands on its hips ... [She] gestured, a window suddenly snapping into existence behind her. }}

* The construction of Digital Avatars and how they function are a major element of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'' series, one of the more modern takes on [[The Metaverse]] in fiction.