* Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

* Snow Crash ( 1992 ) – British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, 1993 ; Clarke Award nominee, 1994

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

The Diamond Age can be seen as set in the same universe as Snow Crash, many years later.

This reading is based on a connection between Y. T., a major character in Snow Crash, and the aged neo-Victorian Miss Matheson in The Diamond Age, who drops oblique references to her past as a hard-edged skateboarder.

This would set The Diamond Age some 80 – 100 years after Snow Crash.

* Stephenson's short story " The Great Simoleon Caper " which refers to both the Metaverse seen in Snow Crash and the First Distributed Republic seen in The Diamond Age ( another short story which fits in the Diamond Age milieu and even shares a character is " Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast ").

Deprived of their funding, large-scale governments collapsed, and were replaced by small, voluntary governments like the burbclaves depicted in Snow Crash.

Both novels deal with an almost " primitive tech " replacing a current, worldwide use technology, in the sense of the reprogramming of the mind through ancient Sumerian chanting in Snow Crash ( which also uses allusions to Babylonian prostitutes passing an information virus like a sexually transmitted disease ), and the idea of nanotechnology propagating and communicating through sexual intercourse, passing from body to body like a virus.

Both novels use an ancient, almost primitive threat to modern, " Western " technology and ideology ( The Raft in Snow Crash and The Fists of Righteous Harmony in The Diamond Age ).

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* Hiro Protagonist, a character in the science fiction novel Snow Crash

In June 2012, it was announced that Cornish had been signed as director of a future film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic 1992 novel, Snow Crash for Paramount Studios.

* Y. T., a character in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The 1992 novel Snow Crash explores the implications of an ancient memetic meta-virus and its modern day computer virus equivalent:

* Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in the form of a weapons system called Reason

* Snow Crash

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The eponymous Snow Crash of Neal Stephenson's novel is a combination mental / computer virus capable of infecting the minds of hackers via their visual cortex.

* Chapter five includes a description of a " Snow Crash Spectacular parade " based on Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.

Three famous clipper ships which can be seen as models are Comet, Snow Squall, and Flying Cloud.

Snow cover can be seen on the western and eastern mountain ranges.

Snow is common in the deserts and low valleys between May and September ; the higher peaks can experience occasionally significant snowfall year-round.

Snow occurs every year, it can be snowing from October to April.

Snow is not very common near the Gulf of Mexico, although those in the northern parts of the state can expect one to three snowfalls per year, with the frequency increasing northwards.

Snow Leopard only supports machines with Intel CPUs, requires at least 1 GB of RAM, and drops default support for applications built for the PowerPC architecture ( Rosetta can be installed as an additional component to retain support for PowerPC-only applications ).

Snow is not unusual, but is by no means predictable, and years can pass with no snowfall at all.

Snow can fall poleward of these systems ' associated warm fronts and within their comma head precipitation patterns ( called such due to the comma-like shape of the cloud and precipitation pattern around the poleward and west sides of extratropical cyclones ).

Snow cover can protect crops from extreme cold.

Snow can be used to make snow cones, also known as snowballs, which are usually eaten in the summer months.

Snow can be used to alter the format of outdoor games such as Capture the flag, or for snowball fights.

Consider the analogy between the sentence " Snow is white " and the character named Snow White, both of which can be true in some sense.

Snow can block railway lines, close airports ( airplanes are often unable to move in dense fog ) and block roads.

* In Peter Høeg's novel Smilla's Sense of Snow, the titular heroine reflects that it is admirable for the hotel's manager and guests to go to all that trouble so that the latecomer can have his own room and some privacy.

Starting with 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ), the user can choose out of a wide range list of multiple voices.

Snow and ice conditions can develop in the colder upper portions of the clouds, even when the air temperatures at ground level are moderate.

Snow falls in the mountains from November to May, and in midwinter can be found down to altitude of 1000 – 1200 metres on the shady side of the mountains and 1300 to 1600 metres on the sunny side.

Snow is not unusual when the air masses come from the north or from the east, and can be heavy at times.

Snow can fall heavily during the winter months, being the greatest in April, and usually falls in May and October, but rarely September.

There were separate lower-level platforms under the main part of Holborn Viaduct station known as the Snow Hill platforms, and these can still be seen when leaving City Thameslink station travelling northwards.

Snow is rare, but can be heavy when it does fall.

Typically, winters are cool and wet in the extreme south areas and Snow can fall and settle to sea level in winter, especially in the hills and plains of South Otago.