Original script by Neil Stephenson Snow Crash – the book that coined the term “Metaverse,” – will be auctioned by Sotheby’s, according to a page on Sotheby’s official website. The auction is part of a February 23 series called “Infocalypse” that includes six physical and six digital items related to the famous book.
The original manuscript is in Lot 2 of the series. It is “wrapped in original Xerox 4200 Paper,” secured with masking tape and contains “corrections and notations in Neal Stephenson’s hand in blue ink.” It also has the title of the book written on the spine in sharpie by the author.
A “revised typesetting manuscript” is also up for auction in Lot 4. This later version is filled with additional handwritten notations and revisions by the author.
Attention readers and Snow Crash fans!
Infocalypse, an open-edition digital art collection created to mark its 30th anniversary @nealstephensonThe novel Snow Crash, which coined the term “Metaverse”, will open on February 27.
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— Sotheby’s Metaverse (@Sothebysverse) February 23, 2023
Other physical objects auctioned as part of the series include the original painting used as cover art for the 1993 mass market edition of the book, a leather jacket to be used in a promotional video for the graphic novel, a slide used for the concept of the graphic novel, and the actual sword that inspired it. by the book’s protagonist.
In addition to these physical items, the series will also contain NFT digital art inspired by the graphic novel concept that preceded it Snow Crash.
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Published in 1992, Snow Crash is set in a dystopia where most humans live in small storage facilities, according to the publisher’s description. It follows the exploits of the protagonist Hiro, a pizza delivery man who must fight bandits to deliver pizzas. Hiro spends all his free time in a virtual world called “The Metaverse,” where the citizens go to escape their daily misery. But a computer virus causes the citizens of the Metaverse to become “nothing more than a cloud of evil digital karma.” The novel’s plot revolves around Hiro’s efforts to figure out how to stop the virus.
The book sold more than 125,000 copies, according to the Washington Post. Since the release of the book, virtual reality fans have increasingly used Stephenson’s term “Metaverse” to describe the virtual world created by VR technology, and in recent years, the word has become a frequently searched word.
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