Turbo AI Book Summaries

In a splintered America of corporate city-states, Hiro Protagonist hacks the Metaverse and delivers pizzas for the Mafia. After he teams with Y.T., an audacious teenage skateboard Kourier, they uncover Snow Crash—a neuro-linguistic contagion that spreads as both street drug and digital bitmap, frying hackers and “rebooting” minds. Media magnate L. Bob Rife seeds the plague to seize control of language itself, and Hiro and Y.T. race through code and concrete to cut the transmission before humanity’s operating system goes dark, a pursuit that exposes language as executable code and skewers the corporate order that wields information as a weapon.

This guide charts every chapter, profiles the cast, distills major themes, and curates key quotes. Use it to follow the plot with precision, grasp character motives, and sharpen your reading of Snow Crash.