seduced him of her own free will and had ever intention of having intercourse with him.

While Raven is knocked out before intercourse this is entirely by accident meaning Y.T. To make matters worse she is only fifteen, not even at the age of consent in some countries. My biggest gripe with her however relates to some of her actions during the climax, where she seduces one of the villains, Raven, who is over twice her age. is similarly witty but I can’t help but feel that she is a bit lacking in terms of personality, being little more than an unusually mature teenage girl. I feel like his status as a capable swordsman both in and out of the Metaverse is a bit strange, particularly outside since it leaves Hiro without any real physical flaws. Hiro is generally a rather witty and capable protagonist but at the same time I feel like he is a bit too overpowered.

The characters are interesting although I have a few gripes. The book has a unique feel and the narrative is unlike anything I have read, but I am unsure as to whether or not this is a good thing. Since present tense point of view, in my experience, benefits a more immediate narrative the info dumps seemed more jarring than usual. I am also not fond of the long dumps of information present throughout the narrative, which while sometimes necessary for the plot, I feel like it is a lazy narrative technique and a lot of the time it interrupts the plot. I feel that the novel might have been stronger if it had been written in the past tense instead. It gives the work a sense of immediacy but at times it feels clumsy and not properly executed, with times where it shifts to past tense where it isn’t necessary. In terms of narrative Snow Crash is written in an unusual third person present tense style, a rarely used point of view in fiction. More importantly it is a vision of the internet’s future as Neal Stephenson saw it, and the explores the evolution of technology. However Snow Crash is more than just a story, it is a work examining a number of topics at an academic level including linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy and cryptography. Snow Crash seems like a computer virus but at the same time it is not, with its effects bleeding into reality. Snow Crash on the face of it revolves around a guy named Hiro Protagonist and teenage girl Y.T.as they deal they adventure around in a virtual reality version of the internet known as the Metaverse, which is beset by a drug known as Snow Crash. His novels often cover a lot of serious academic disciplines, with some seriously complex stuff hidden within the plot. Neal Stephenson is a very polarising author in my view.

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