Rick Garcia answers “Hiro Protagonist, really? Should I be...”

Sam asked this question about Snow Crash:

Hiro Protagonist, really? Should I be worried about the startling lack of imagination this displays?

Rick Garcia It's satire. But seriously, don't worry about the lack of imagination. The world painted by Stephenson in Snow Crash is a wacky, over-the-top mixture …moreIt's satire. But seriously, don't worry about the lack of imagination. The world painted by Stephenson in Snow Crash is a wacky, over-the-top mixture of corporativism, megachurches and violence. Honestly, it has some hilarious scenes of sardonic criticism at society that still make me smile to this day.

But that's not all. The way Snow Crash mixes the alluring evil plot done by the bad guys, with references to ancient Mesopotamian religions, is just epic. It really makes you think, and wonder whether some corporation or the status-quo isn't actually manipulating your brain with the subtleties of mass psychology right now.

The protagonist's name might be cliché, but it's done on purpose, and the intellectual and creative level of the rest of the book is good enough to make it a modern classic.(less)

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