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	Amazon.com: Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro and his friend Y.T. (15-year old skateboarding female, and knee-slappingly funny smartaleck) set off to find out why, and save the world in the process.
		Among this genre's leading inspirations are the works of Thomas Pynchon, and "Hiro Protagonist," as a character name, would fit in perfectly among his merry bands of misfits, especially in _V._ or _Gravity's Rainbow_.
		Hiro is at times a curt, savage and indifferent person, yet at other times a loquacious, compassionate and loyal friend.
	www.amazon.com /Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958 (2313 words)

	Protagonist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The protagonist is often faced with a "foil"; that is, a character known as the antagonist who most represents or creates obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.
		The use of 'protagonist' in place of 'proponent' has become common in the 20th century and may have been influenced by a misconception that the first syllable of the word represents the prefix pro- (ie.
		In psychodrama, the "protagonist" is the person (group member, patient or client) who decides to enact some significant aspect of his life, experiences or relationships on stage with the help of the psychodrama director and other group members, taking supplementary roles as auxiliary egos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protagonist (630 words)

	Snow Crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the name flippantly suggests, the hero of the novel, a hacker, swordsman, former Mafia-employed pizza delivery man. Hiro was one of the original developers of the Metaverse.
		She is Hiro's "partner," and may be viewed as a sort of secondary protagonist.
		"Hiro Protagonist" is the gamertag of Microsoft Corporate VP James Allard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow_Crash (2028 words)

	Protagonist
		Often the story is told from the protagonist's point of view; even when not in first-person narrative, the protagonist's attitudes and actions are made clear to the reader or listener to a larger extent than for any other character.
		The protagonist is often faced with a "foil"; that is, the character who most represents or creates obstacles that the protagonist must overcome.
		This character is known as the antagonist; as with protagonists, there may be more than one antagonist in a story.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Protagonist.html (218 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Often 5 the story is told 6 from the protagonist's point 5 of view; even when 8 not in first-person narrative, 0 the protagonist's attitudes 1 and actions are 0 made clear to the 7 reader or listener to 6 a larger extent than 5 for any other character.
		However, it 8 is most common for 7 the story to 7 be "about" the protagonist; 5 even if the protagonist's 1 actions are not 6 heroic, they are 0 nonetheless usually vital to 1 the progress of the 7 story.
		The protagonist is 8 often faced with 0 a "foil"; that is, 6 the character who most 6 represents or creates 9 obstacles that the protagonist 5 must overcome.
	www.rutle.com /protagonist_.htm (273 words)

	Hackers and Code Breakers: Two Books
		Hiro, when not failing at being a Deliverator, is the "Last of the freelance hackers," as his business card says, and "Greatest sword fighter in the world." Unfortunately, all the programmers who make money work as part of corporate teams, so Hiro the freelancer is so poor he lives in a storage container.
		Hiro, former Deliverator, hears rumors it may also be the name of a computer virus that has, impossibly, crossed the silicon/brain barrier, and is infecting people.
		The chief protagonist for the earlier portion is Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, the son of a West Virginia preacher with a fascination for patterns.
	www.wap.org /journal/hackersandcodebreakers.html (1204 words)

	Snow Crash
		Hiro and YT are needed by one group of forces who want to prevent another group from unleashing an ancient meme onto the world.
		Hiro's role in designing parts of the metaverse, its backdoors, and tales of "the old days" are all consistent with the scope and limitations of the metaverse and the base technology.
		Hiro startles and actually jumps into the air as Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns launch into their opening number,"Radiation Burn." It is a tornado of mostly high-pitched noise and distortion, like being flung bodily through a wall of fishhooks.
	www.streettech.com /bcp/BCPgraf/Media/snowcrash.htm (3418 words)

	Hiro Protagonist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro is a very interesting man of many traits.
		Hiro is a simple guy with a little money, living in a storage unit, and plugged in to the metaverse.
		Hiro is a man of great talent when it comes to sword fighting.
	www.wiu.edu /users/murkf/Hiro-Protagonist.htm (277 words)

	interrogation report: Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro lives in a near future where the government has almost completely collapsed and people live in atonomous Burbclaves -- an extrapolation of the modern gated community.
		Hiro loses his delivery job because he wrecked the mafia's delivery vehicle, but this initial episode does introduce the book's other main character Y.T., a 15-year-old skateboard courier.
		Hiro takes on Y.T. as a partner and agrees to split his commissions on any information she acquires.
	www.xmission.com /~jeffress/reports/b/B200002.html (382 words)

	Snow Crash (ISBN 0553380958): Very Well Said™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The story follows Hiro Protagonist, VR-internet god and real world pizza delivery boy, and a young skateboard courier named YT through an American that is a shattered mirror of our own.
		Hiro Protagonist, the main character, is on of the most highly skilled Metaverse hackers.
		Hiro Protagonist, hacker and greatest swordsman in the world, freelances for the CIC after getting fired from delivering pizzas for the Mafia.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/s/snow-crash-0553380958.php (4465 words)

	Snow Crash
		Hiro Protagonist (isn't that cute) runs into his future sidekick of Y.T. She is a fifteen year old thrasher who has one hell of an attitude toward life and is seen as the traditional sidekick.
		Hiro, on the other hand is older and sometimes feels his age, especially in the presence of twenty-one year old programmers which may be what the older readers identify with.
		Hiro also understands the construction of The Street and is one who explains what is and isn't possible.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/aardalan/snow.html (794 words)

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		Collette's face, looking upon Hiro emerging from the water, is a wonder of multiple emotions: curiosity, aesthetic appreciation of his body, archness.
		Easy enough to pigeonhole Hiro, but this is a man who hid the existence of his family; a man who has poetry in him; a man who was boorish; a man who hates karaoke - in other words, an individual.
		In the end, there's a lot on the value of things left unsaid: Hiro's wife, coming to Australia to claim the body, looks through the photos of Sandy and Hiro, and passes Hiro's note on to her.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3514444&postID=108726954692815029 (946 words)

	Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro uses these blades in real life and in the Metaverse, where he is a warrior prince.
		Hiro is also a freelance hacker who helped to devise a wonderful "bar" in the Metaverse.
		Hiro's life takes an abrupt turn for the exciting when his Deliverator car is ruined, and a young Kourier named Y.T. has to help him deliver the pizza on time.
	www.rambles.net /stephenson_snowaudio.html (642 words)

	Hiro Protagonist, from Snow Crash (279-334 points)
		(Hiro Protagonist is copyright, um, the author of _Snow Crash_ (Neal Davidson, is it?), and no infringement or threat to that copyright is intended.
		Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Coasta Nostra, (30 minutes or less or the delivery person disappears mysteriously).
		He does freelance spying for the CDC (Central Intellegence Corporation) He was one of the pioneers of the mid TL8 incarnation of cyberspace known as the metaverse, but sold his options just before they took off to help out his mother during economic hard times.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/characters/NearFuture/Hiro.html (222 words)

	Passage Index for Snow Crash
		And when you are connected to the system over a satellite uplink, as Hiro is, out here on the Raft, there is a delay as the signals bounce up to the satellite and back down.
		Hiro passes right through the wall on the tail end of his all-penetrating katana.
		Hiro maneuvers until he can get a closer look at one of the blue cubes, peering through the clutter of lines that has grown around it.
	iat.ubalt.edu /moulthrop/pi/snow_crash.html (4020 words)

	Nashville Science Fiction Book Club - Book Lists
		We meet Hiro as he is delivering a pizza, a pizza that looks as though it is going to be late.
		Hiro becomes a gargoyle, someone always patched into the net, and owns a house right off of main street in the Metaverse (a representation of the world wide web).
		Hiro Protagonist, as his name would imply, is the main character, but we also see Stephenson’s creation through YT and other minor characters.
	www.nsfbc.org /xoops/modules/booklists/viewcat.php?cid=1 (1615 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, Mass Market Paperback
		Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre ``drug'' with ancient roots.
		The central character, aptly named Hiro Protagonist, is at once a computer hacker, pizza "deliverator," and samurai swordsman.
		Hiro Protagonist, delivery boy for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza and freelance hacker in the virtual reality called the Metaverse, tangles with religious cultists, computer virus/drug dealers, and a human bomb known as the Raven in a freewheeling first novel that picks up where cyberpunk left off.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0553562614 (1290 words)

	Snowcrash Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Meanwhile, Hiro Protagonist, a hacker who wrote some of the earliest software for the Metaverse, prowls about looking for intel to sell in an information-overloaded age.
		Hiro has a debt to pay: he owes the Mafia-run CosaNostra, the twenty-first century version of Domino's Pizza, the cost of a new delivery car.
		To stop Rife, Hiro and Y.T. link up with the Mafia and the Nipponese, who ha ve a vested interest in protecting their own global empires, to infiltrate Rife's Raft.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/miwong/WWW/snow (458 words)

	Janet M. Schmidt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro Protagonist is such a man. But in Snow Crash, Hiro is incapable of extending rationalism outside of the box.
		Hiro asks Juanita if snow crash is “a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Her answer is, “What’s the difference?” The pre-rational state of religion is one way the snow crash virus spreads.
		Hiro is very taken with her, and her presence is felt.
	home.comcast.net /~schmidtjanet/snowcrash.html (2240 words)

	Instituting Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, freelance hacker Hiro Protagonist leads a double life delivering pizza in postmodern Los Angeles and honing his ninja warrior skills in the Metaverse, a virtual reality world he jacks into from his personal computer.
		In time, those who are disciplined in this second way may become, like Hiro the ninja hacker, adepts within the institution, able to avoid its constraints, to innovate within its parameters, to locate and exploit loopholes.
		His blade doesn't have the power to cut a hole in the wall--this would mean permanently changing the shape of someone else's building--but it does have the power to penetrate things.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/HPST/TimLenoir/Publications/Lenoir_IntroInstitutingScience.html (5894 words)

	johnaugust.com » What’s the difference between Hero, Main Character and Protagonist?
		For example, Ripley in Aliens is clearly the Hero (fighting the monster), the Main Character (the story is mostly about her), and the Protagonist (she reluctantly joins the trip, but ends up descending to the depths to fight for her “daughter”).
		Protagonist is no different from main characters, except that it’s more of a journey role (as John has said).
		Now, Gruber is obviously a Villain, but as far as the plot of the main plot of the movie goes, he’s the one with the classic protagonist’s journey: he wants something, and either succeeds or fails to get it in the end.
	johnaugust.com /archives/2005/whats-the-difference-between-hero-main-character-and-protagonist (2539 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hiro Protagonist represents the classic cyberpunk hero who is well versed in the knowledge of computers and the cyber underworld and exceptionally skilled in the art of sword fighting.
		Initially this character represents the attitude driven computer geek, but as the novel develops one notices the strong character of Hiro.
		She constantly tells Hiro to experience reality without the aid of the cyber world.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~tonya/cyberpunk/responses/scguven.html (360 words)

	Hiro Protagonist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He is the one person that can save the world from the disease that could control everyone.
		Hiro cannot do this all by himself though.
		She is a smart and sassy skater girl who happens to deliver packages.
	www.wiu.edu /users/jlp105/hiro_protagonist.htm (119 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Snow Crash
		Hiro and teenage girl/super skate-punk Y.T. are probably the only ones who can save the day, but only if they can keep from getting killed by both the Mafia and a psychopath armed with his own atomic bomb.
		Hiro Protagonist, freelance computer hacker, world's greatest swordsman, and stringer for the privatized CIA, delivers pizzas for the Mafia--until his mentor Da5id is blasted by Snow Crash, a curious new drug capable of crashing both computers and hackers.
		Hiro Protagonist - The "Hero" of the story (bad pun), Hiro is the greatest swordsman alive and a computer
	fusionanomaly.net /snowcrash.html (921 words)

	Snow Crash - Kaedrin
		Meet Hiro Protagonist, pizza delivery boy for the Mafia, samurai swordsman, and hacker extraordinair.
		Hiro lives in a civilization on the brink of collapse with the United States broken down into a bunch of corporate controlled city states with their own laws.
		In this world, the internet has grown into a fully integrated, virtual reality universe called the Metaverse, which is where Hiro holds most of his power.
	kaedrin.com /fun/books/sc.html (184 words)

	Snow Crash (by Neal Stephenson) (Info Feed Weblog)
		The protagonist is called Hiro Protagonist (neat, ain't it?), and he's a pizza delivery guy for one of the dominating enterprises in that near future: Uncle Enzo's pizza delivery company.
		While Hiro dives into this issue, he is joined by Y.T., a very young, sort-of-skateboarding girl.
		You never really miss where Hiro or Y.T. currently are and what their motivating drives are.
	www.smalla.net /infofeed/2004/04/20/snow_crash_by_neal_stephenson.shtml (478 words)

	[No title]
		One of these characters that has nothing going for him in reality is Hiro protagonist.
		Hiro lives in a 20' by 30' storage unit at U-Stor-It with his roommate Vitaly Chernobyl.
		Hiro is unemployed and spends most of his time jacked into the Metaverse, where his life
	www.csus.edu /indiv/t/tanakar/engl190c/paper01.htm (770 words)

	Loopnote News - loopnote.com
		Be one of the first and sign up for an invite for the successor of loopnote at http://brightkite.com
		Loopnote Founders drop in on 'The Daily Tech Connection' podcast.
		We're aware of issues with IM notifications, and rest assured that we're working on it.
	loopnote.com /loopnews (367 words)

	Bureau 42 \| Snow Crash
		Hiro Protagonist, freelance hacker and Mafia pizza-deliverer and Y.T., skate kid Kourier, must join forces to try to prevent Infocalypse.
		Surprisingly (he looks so real when he’s in one piece), no flesh, blood, or organs are visible through the new crosssections that Hiro’s sword made through the body.
		Hiro Protagonist was born in the early 1970s, and specific events from the 20th century affect the plot.
	www.bureau42.com /view/2400 (2049 words)

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