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Fiction · Science fiction

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson
1992 · 440 pages

Stephenson coined the word Metaverse in these pages, and Facebook renamed itself after the idea. His sword-carrying hacker delivers pizza for the Mafia and fights a virus that infects minds through language.

★ 4.8