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Possibly the best-known book by [[Neal Stephenson]], '''''Snow Crash''''' is basically the tale of a sword-slinging hacker who teams up with a badass Kourier in a [[Post Cyber Punk]] [[Divided States of America|disincorporated USA]] to fight "[[The Virus|Snow Crash]]" - a computer virus for the brain. Oh, and there's a badass biker with glass knives and a nuclear bomb strapped to his motorbike, too.

Apart from its frenetic action sequences and overt use of the [[Rule of Cool]], the book is surprisingly deep, with a substantial portion of the plot given over to exploring metaphysical interpretations of the Tower of Babel myth. Typical for a Stephenson novel, the plot juxtaposes action sequences, lengthy humorous digressions, and extremely detailed [[Info Dump|Infodumps]] seemingly at random. The book is also notable for its uncanny prediction of future internet trends. While holographic web terminals have not yet come to pass, we do have heavily populated 3D virtual worlds, satellite photograph software, and [[Wikipedia|a massive user-created online library]], and certain real world equivalents (''[[Second Life]]'', Google Earth) having been inspired by the book itself.