• Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history...
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    originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe". In Snow Crash, the metaverse is envisioned as a hypothetical...
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    develop in his later work. Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a cyberpunk or postcyberpunk novel fusing memetics, computer viruses...
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  • Society of the Snow (Spanish: La sociedad de la nieve) is a 2023 survival drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and based on Pablo Vierci's 2009 book of...
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    aircraft overflew the crash site several times during the following days, but failed to see the white fuselage against the snow. Search efforts were called...
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    was popularised by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. In Snow Crash, the term avatar was used to describe the virtual simulation of...
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    Stephenson's Snow Crash in 1992. Bookending the cyberpunk era, Bethke himself published a novel in 1995 called Headcrash, like Snow Crash a satirical attack...
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  • Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash "Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott ”Yours Truly” (album)...
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    director of a future film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic 1992 novel Snow Crash for Paramount Pictures. In May 2020, it was announced that Cornish would...
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    although entering triumphantly, always leave diminished. In the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, the vagina of Y.T., a female character, is equipped...
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  • "YT", born 1973), Chinese entrepreneur Y.T., a character in the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson YT, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Mayotte .yt, the...
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    the Seinfeld episode "The Barber" Uncle Enzo, a character in the novel Snow Crash Enzo Aguello, AKA Enzo the baker in The Godfather Enzo Kang, a character...
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  • bad) ideas that spread like germs.": 17  For example, the 1992 novel Snow Crash explores the implications of an ancient memetic meta-virus and its modern-day...
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  • book about a magical board game; Neal Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, which introduced the term metaverse; and the Guardians of the Flame series...
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  • Stephenson has said he is not proud of this book. When Stephenson's Snow Crash was published in 1992, the book that became a best-seller and vaulted...
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  • network. The name of the group was taken from the 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. Microformats Jennifer Niederst Robbins (21 February 2006). Web Design...
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  • Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland Leviathan (1992) by Paul Auster Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by...
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  • Chapter five includes a description of a "Snow Crash Spectacular parade" based on Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash. The book contains references to the Beatles...
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    republics are common in the cyberpunk genre, as in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (as well as...
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    Matushka Peter the Aleut (1800–1815), Eastern Orthodox Saint and martyr In Snow Crash, a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, a central...
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  • moviegoers. For instance, the works of Paul Beatty, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence are Los Angeles novels but not Hollywood...
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    described in) Neal Stephenson's famous science fiction novel Snow Crash. In the metaverse in Snow Crash, there is a piece of software called Earth made by the...
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    he retained the WWF Hardcore Championship against Test, Funaki, Al Snow, Crash Holly, and Perry Saturn. Later, he was ordered by Shane McMahon to come...
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  • Nikon") Eugene Belford ("The Plague") Dade Murphy ("Zero Cool" a.k.a. "Crash Override") Joey Pardella Emmanuel Goldstein ("Cereal Killer") David Levinson...
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  • an object in The City and the Stars Black Sun, a virtual nightclub in Snow Crash Black Sun, a weapon in Supreme Commander Black sun, a solarization effect...
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    They finished seventh and tenth respectively.[citation needed] Snow survived a plane crash at Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Washington on 1 October 1999...
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  • set in a United States that precedes the events in Stephenson's novel Snow Crash (1992), using an early version of his Metaverse. In the story, the protagonist...
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    Although he was familiar with the metaverse of Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, Rosedale has said that his vision of virtual worlds predates that book...
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    character Molly Millions uses a flechette pistol. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, characters use a modified version of a needle/railgun called Reason....
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    is one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. He was portrayed by Josh Hamilton...
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