In a near-future America where the federal government has been neutralized and a franchise nation ruled by capitalists divides the land, a virtual space called the "Metaverse" has been built online. Hiro Protagonist, a skilled hacker who developed avatar technology and works as a "deliverator" for a mafia-run high-speed pizza delivery service, is given a mysterious drug called "Snow Crash" by a man he meets in the Metaverse... This book rewrote the future, and science fiction became connected to reality.