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Violence
A lot
Violence including sword fights, high-speed chases, and shootings; a significant death
Language
A lot
Heavy profanity throughout; Stephenson's dialogue is crude and sharp
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit sexual content; a relationship between a thirty-year-old man and a fifteen-year-old girl
Substance Use
Barely any
Drug use as a plot device
Emotional Intensity
Some
Cyberpunk satire with genuinely disturbing content about media and mental control
What this book is about
Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza deliveryman in a near-future Los Angeles dominated by corporate franchises. When a new drug called Snow Crash begins affecting both the Metaverse and reality — apparently frying the brains of hackers — Hiro must trace it to its source in ancient Sumerian neurolinguistic mythology. The novel that coined the term 'Metaverse.'
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit sexual relationship between an adult and a fifteen-year-old
Heavy profanity and crude content throughout
Violence and shootings
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