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By Steve Ranger

Published: Wednesday 01 November 2006

In 1992 Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash envisaged a 'Metaverse' that looked a lot like Second Life does now. So it's only fitting Penguin has made tasters of the seminal cyberpunk novel available for Second Life residents too.

Picture credit: Second Life/Linden Labs