After a life-long aversion to reading books I’ve read before, I’ve recently begun revisiting some of the “sacred texts” of genre fiction, which is why I finally find myself re-reading Snow Crash. — Neal Stephenson made his name in 1992 when Snow Crash was first published, the year he turned 33 and I turned 7. Written between 1988 and 1991, it was his third novel after The Big U in 1984 and Zodiac: the Eco-thriller (“enjoyed, though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists”)…