• = double-spaced sub-chapter
1. Deliverator
- mafia - pizza shop fire - 20:00
2. Cutting through burbclaves - pooned by a Kourier - empty pool - Kourier
takes over
3. Hiro & Vitaly Chernobyl - U-Stor-It – uploads to CIC - his lens-topped computer - The
Street
4. Smartwheels
- pooning a bimbo box, then shaking it loose - DELIVERED
5. Avatars, Ports, Brandys & Clints • Animercials
- Job offer - On the street - Black Sun VIP • Snow crash - hypercard
6. MetaCops
- YT is loogied,
then busted • Clink
7.
Black Sun – Dæmons - BigBoard • Juanita,
college buddy – Army brats – They reconnect & last a couple years, then she
marries & divorces Da5id
8.
The Vapor of Nuance – Bazooka
screenplay nugget – Bigboarding the room again – L
Bob Rife – Juanita gives Hiro a hypercard…
9. …a very potent hypercard • Da5id tries snow crash: meh – Sushi K’s radiant
avatar – Da5id really crashes and gorillas fling his glitching avatar
out and over the horizon
10. YT in the clink, calls her BF
(busy) then Hiro • They form a plan – Hookah boys chase Hiro – YT steals a taxi
– Mr Lee’s - scanned
11. No. 863 picks a sword fight with
No.1
12. Nice doggies – all the
neighborhood dogs are a single integrated guard dog – bad people have arrived
quickly, with loaded weapons! • Rat Thing confiscates all the weapons in a
flash – YT kinda likes Hiro – “We should work
together” – Jeeks lob grenades at them – Rat Thing is
having spasms – YT approaches to help it, sees its bizarre structure in detail
– It’s overheating, hurt, and bleeding – YT drags it back into its dog house – Mr Lee’s Welcome Poster • Mafia car lurks – they agree to
work 50/50 – YT poons to McD’s,
changes & walks home – Mom’s exhausted from her oppressive govt. job
13. Meta-corpse (no good way to
handle the aftermath) – Graveyard Daemons • Vitaly & The Meltdowns, concert
prep – Vanagon – Earth globe appears – Hiro gets to
know the Librarian, searching for all things Rife – Juanita’s Infocalypse continues revealing its value
14. Hiro views Rife’s
life history (giving zillions to Bedford, owning an aircraft carrier, aquiring the world’s fiber-optic networks) • LRB’s big-brother-ish PR “headache” -
he owns the Metaverse & the street • The Raft - contentious interviewer,
Babble Brigade • Approaching the concert overpass
15. Blunt Force Trauma opens show –
Enforcers running security, Crips make a show • Laser scanned by Lagos who’s
looking for Raven – Lagos warns Hiro of the nam-shub
• Raven arrives on a sidecar-cycle – Lagos scans Raven – Hiro warns YT about Raven,
but she blows him off
16. Raven delivers briefcase to
Crips • In Sushi K's limo they watch Eye Spy – Squeaky the Enforcer - Sushi K's
lyrics - Lagos has been more or less field dressed
17. Young Jason Breckinridge takes
a job with a mafia franchise, Nova Sicilia • He’s assigned a plum priority
delivery, to Compton
18. Jason makes the delivery
personally, unfortunately.
19. Hop field fight, in pursuit of Raven
- Raven knifes T-Bone
20. T-Bone’s suitcase stash
self-destructs - Raven has a nuke in his sidecar
21. YT poons
to Compton • Enzo’s grateful for YT saving the delivery back in chapter 4,
gifts her his Vietnam dog tags
22. Enzo’s guy has a delivery for
her • YT "Hoover-poons” up the 405 – much
discussion of Feds
23. YT heads into Griffith Park
toward babble gang, gets briefcase – heading back she’s intercepted by Jason
& glass eye guy - mafia trailer
24. Rebar Katana workout – quick
shower - chopper to hospital - Da5id catatonic – chopper to Da5id's house -
snow crash
25. YT exits gridlocked van - arrives
at Rev. Wayne's Pearly Gates, waits while previous customer checks out – Rev Thorpe
yanks case from YT, snorts a vial from the case
26. Black Sun back room with
Juanita, she’s explaining how Da5id was snow-crashed (“Hackers can visually
read binary whether they think so or not”) - Is nam-shub
a religion, virus, or drug? What’s the difference? • A clint tries to snow
crash Hiro – Hiro tells a daemon to leave the Clint’s amputated scroll in
Hiro’s office
27. YT chases the Clint (having
just completed Rev. Wayne delivery) - Hiro asks LIBRARIAN about glossolalia; Pentecost;
Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes; Sumerian language - clint disembarks at Port 127
– YT discovers LBR’s 20-mile cube
28. Hiro and Librarian enter
another room; three artifacts (Clay envelope, Hammurabi, and Asherah) &
10,000 hyper cards; Rife digging at Enki; Egypt vs. Sumer; Nam-shub of Enki (it’s a Babel story); Lagos’s theory; a
scribe’s strongly worded letter to Enki
29. YT jacks into the Street via a
crappy truck stop terminal * Visits Ng in Metaverse Vietnam – Ng has speech
issues…? – Ng is physically driving his “wheelchair” to pick up YT, gives her her next job
30. Hiro asks the Librarian about
Asherah, biblical connections, Adam & Eve story retooled –
31. Ng blasts into Terminal Island
Sacrifice Zone (Long Beach, CA) – Ng navigates via drug sensor – YT gears up
& goes out to investigate – testosterone – Getting freon • “When you get
the drugs, fling them straight up in the air”
32. YT bickers with dealers at
warehouse, make the deal, flings it up; Ng appears, Rat Things attack; chopper
(de)caps a sniper • Mission accomplished, unblemished snow crash sample
obtained - “Maybe Fido is a Rat Thing” - Yep, Fido is a Rat Thing
33. YT tells HP about Ng getting SC
for mafia – HP dives back into his Asherah & Sumerian studies – Akkadians
retool Sumerian myths (Nursing at Asherah’s teat spreads virus) - Asherah &
Enki in Dilmun – Enki spills his “water of the heart,” sowing it
multi-generationally – Enki eats plants (a binary existence from a singular
creator) - Enki & Asherah defeated chaos - (Is there anything that DOESN’T
drive this guy to jerk off??) - The Me – Inanna = societal OS - “You sound like
Lagos”
34. YT skates down into Griffith
Park, scoping the camp out in the optical *and* infrared - chats with a wasted
hacker • She’s from Rife’s raft...snow-crashed and in
the cult – High priest watches, his associate has a syringe of blood – YT
Liquid Knuckles them • Hiro's a gargoyle, confirms to YT that people get snow
crash from screens – YT zooms home & trashes mom’s government computer
35. Enterprise and Core are currently
off the Oregon coast • Hiro’s new bike, complete with BIOS & the works!
36. Enshrouded/Enfogged
Raft (it looks bigger than it is) heads south down OR & CA coasts,
[presumably riding the North Pacific Gyre?] Every 5 years when the raft passes
by here, 25,000 head for CA’s shores • Kabbalist theurgic sorcerers – Eye
writing – Relativists vs Universalists – Lagos's PROM analogy – Why no English nam-shubs? - Machine language analogy – Maybe Sumerian
words simply work differently
37. YT's mom's soul-crushing Fed
job – new toilet paper regulations (Bathroom Tissue Distribution Units) - Time
for a ....
38. ...soul-crushing piss-and-hyperintrusive-polygraph test, mostly about YT
39. Winnebago armada,
pseudo-podding north up the Alcan – To eastern Oregon Snooze & Cruise to get
Wrightson’s angle on LBR’s world domination and how Raven got a Russian nuke
(HINT: glass knives)
40. Rednecks come after Hiro, who
decapitates one – they shoot him in the back (body armor!) - Hiro katanas his
way out of the inflatable dome
41. YT makes a delivery to Fed
building – Dense gauntlet at security – It's a trap, but she’s activated her
gear – She's blasting her way out, but there are a million cops – Blasts out
the revolving door and is promptly stun bunnied
42. Hiro, at Port Sheridan, OR –
Inanna...”Enki fished Inanna out of Hell” (Hiro takes this as a sign to get
Juanita from the Raft) • If the Raft is close off the coast, the “high priests”
must be nearby on land...
43. YT taped up in the back of a
van for 8 hours – then sedated, then not really stripped but almost – Bonnie
& Marla attend to her. They all get on this crowded seatless carpeted cult
van...for two days. Speaking in tongues with cult kids, pit-stops at eerily
empty suburban houses – then the van is on a ferry headed to sea - now she's cutting
fish on a ship ship, then she’s shoveling slop
in a sweaty chow line – Antenna heads
44. Hiro in Port Sheridan, his
fancy-ass bike dies in its tracks. Evac-helicopter is dropping flares - but not
quite enough, missile hit chopper – HP wants to rent Kowloon, dealer is wary –
Soldiers all around – onto the pier – Kodiak Queen – Kowloon – Spectrum 2000
shootout free-for-all
45. Hiro boards Kowloon - talks
virus with glass eye guy [Fisheye] - Kowloon heads into fjord towing a severed
pier covered with a bunch of Russian upper management
46. Sub rescues Orthos
(Russian orthodox), then destroys Kowloon
47. Raven saves YT from a life of
drudgery in the Enterprise kitchen - YT kinda digs Dmitri
Ravinoff – They chat while boat-hopping across the
Raft
48. Four In A Life Raft: Hiro, Vic,
Chung, Fisheye, which latter has a huge suitcase thing which itself has a long
hose which in turn has a red-hot, high-surface-area end-appliance which stays
overboard, boiling the ocean (a radio-thermal isotope device which remains
awkwardly undiscussed) – Fisheye reads the device’s manual while grumbling
about getting YT back: Enzo is VERY pissed at L Bob Rife • Nothing better to
do, Hiro hacks the Metaverse; it’s lethal now and fixing that won’t be
easy...but for now it’s easier for hackers • Starts working on the Snow Crash scroll
[amputated from the hapless Clint back at the end of chapter 26] in 2D -
creates SnowScan “virus protection” – Invisible
Avatars: Hiro writes one and writes a transportation alternative: a new motorcycle
(which he practices riding on his CPU)
49. Life raft encounters Rife Raft pirate “Bruce Lee” trawler, and accompanying motor yacht – Fisheye wants to bait them with nude men, appoints himself president and forces Eliot & Hiro to strip – "Bruce Lee’s” leader appears, offers to trade missiles and other hardware for Eliot’s & Hiro’s warm moist orifices – the whole crew of the Bruce Lee begins babbling, then suddenly each one bursts into blood blobs, right where they stand; Fisheye has sprayed them with Reason, his suitcase’s hypervelocity gatling rail-gun; He sprays the yacht as well and both craft are shredded • One survivor; Eliot & Hiro repair the yacht while discussing the crew’s pre-mortem babble. Eliot: “It’s a Raft thing.” - Not enough fuel to make it to shore so, TO THE RAFT! ...for fuel, YT & Juanita.
50. Raven takes YT to a restaurant
boat, tells her how his people (Aleutians) have been fucked over by just about
everyone throughout history (Russians, Japanese, Americans; He got blind drunk
and fell overboard once, days later washed ashore near a Russian Orthodox
church, is how he came to be with the Russians.)
51. Four Guys On A Yacht, battling
many waves of pirates – Alas, Fisheye – Battling Raven –
Filipino boy will be Hiro’s guide
52. Love scene, more or less – Now
what am I forgetting....gosh it’s on the tip of my....
53. Tranny takes Hiro to his 'hood
– Those head antennae are implants!) Hiro grabs Reason – No motor, they must
row – Tranny's family welcomes Hiro warmly.
54. YT finds a terminal and jacks
into Metaverse
55. Hiro drags Reason to the
houseboat, jacks in from Trannyville and tries to
debug it – goes to Mr Ng’s and deals with adaptive CS
daemons – Hiro tells Ng about Fisheye – Uncle Enzo appears, as does Mr Lee. The four of them powwow – Enzo pays Hiro
56. Hiro continues with Enzo, Mr Lee & Ng, offering a HUGE infodump re Sumer,
Asherah, glossolalia, Rife.
57. Infodump continues: more xenoglossia
on the Raft - it came from outer space – if we could get Enki’s nam-shub from the clay envelope... - we’ll need to move
fast, Rife will send the refugees after us
58. YT & Hiro chat – YT is
worried about Raven killing her - Trannyville
attacked by core – the salvage trawler is sinking and pulling pontoons down
with it – Enyerprise is gunning for Hiro now – in the
metaverse HP tells YT to chopper (motorcycle) him home – Ducks a strung wire –
YT has Hiro back in his m-verse office
59. Hiro attacks Enterprise's deck
guns with Reason - breaches Enterprise's hull, uses Librarian’s blueprints to
spot targets within the ship
60. YT is grabbed and dragged
across several raft boats while medics rush in to tend to Raven – She's lifted
from an oil tanker and dropped on the Enterprise, boards Rife's
chopper – President climbs aboard – Hiro attacks, YT kicks clay tablet out for
Hiro
61. Hiro sees broken tablet –
jumped by wire-heads until Juanita nam-shubs them – Juanita's
jacked immune system - Tablet - broadcasting nam-shub
62. YT is choppered
across the ocean – Raven’s RARE copter pulls alongside
63. Hiro goes to Rife's Metaverse cube, his katana pierces it, he follows the
blade into the cube – inside it’s just basic geometric shapes, but each one is
a model representing one of Rife’s systems – One of
the shapes represents government systems – Hiro & Juanita see Raven
preparing
64. Hiro vs Raven, on cycles, at
50,000 mph
65. All Rife’s
networks are down, Chopper puts down so Rife's can
make a pay-phone call - Kourier dude see them mistreating
YT, calls a code • Fido The Rat Thing hears YT & remembers – breaks Mach
One going to help
66. As they scream through metaspace, Hiro tells Raven of his (Hiro’s) dad – Raven
knows the story as Hiro is telling it because their fathers were on opposite sides
of the same story. (Both had escaped the Japanese and been recaptured. They were both about to be executed when Fat Man
detonated over Nagasaki.) Hiro & Raven slalom
67. The Kouriers
poon Rife's chopper – YT jumps out – Kouriers pull chopper down, YT uses a poon cable to tangle
the chopper blades
68. Hiro & Raven slice each others’ avatars up - Amphitheater showdown, hackers
roar with approval – Light show - Security ad
69. Enzo digs in at LAX – Rife’s pilots switch teams and now work for Enzo – Enzo
forces LAX to close – Enzo is having personnel problems, give good advice to an
underperformer – Enzo exits the copter
70. Enzo on the tarmac, has knife
fight with Raven – Enzo hits Raven with a skateboard’s Shock Wave
Projector
71. Rat Thing
"apprehends" Rife (strongly evoking the ending of Die Hard 2).