Ty 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?

Ty Its self-chosen - kind of like Stephenson predicting that we'd be selling ourselves just as much as our talents/skills in the age of the "metaverse". …moreIts self-chosen - kind of like Stephenson predicting that we'd be selling ourselves just as much as our talents/skills in the age of the "metaverse". In universe characters think its pretentious too, but Y.T. can't really speak either about her name nor should Dav3d.

I think the first chapter really does everything it can to demonstrate why he has that name for himself, and then gives you a good reason to not think he's be a Gary Stu.

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