SPECIAL WINDYCON November 2025 Chicago SF Book Discussion - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

Name: SPECIAL WINDYCON November 2025 Chicago SF Book Discussion - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
Start: 2025-11-08T10:00:00-06:00
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago - Oak Brook

Schedule

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago - Oak Brook | Oak Brook, IL

In November at Windycon, we will be discussion "Snow Crash", the groundbreaking 1992 novel by Neal Stephenson that has been described as "a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators".
Exact date and time TBD.
This discussion is open to anybody and everybody. We're be holding this particular meeting at a special location: Windycon 51, the science fiction convention which will run from November 7-9 at the Doubletree By Hilton Hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois.
We will still also include a link for free online attendance via Discord as we do with regular meetings. A link with which to log on will be published shortly before the meeting.
(Please note: THIS IS A SPECIAL DATE AND TIME. Other than in February and November, Chicago SF Book Discussions are held once a month on (usually the third) Saturday at 2pm, both online and at the Oak Park, IL Public Library.)
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From the publisher:
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.
But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state).
Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.