Although I’ve read up to Chapter 24, I decided to go back and skim the first few chapters of the book. It is confusing from the beginning; but I think it’s meant to be that way.
The main character of the book is generic; he could be anyone - he delivers pizza for CosaNostra Pizza #3659. But he is called, “Deliverator” perhaps because he is the ultimate pizza deliveryman. In 2010, pizza delivery is a major industry; it is run and managed by the Mafia and is so analyzed that delivery is guaranteed in 30 minutes or less. It is so … managed that the boxes have LED timers on them. The job is a rat race and the area has “the worst economy in the world.” There is no competition because it goes against the Mafia ethic.
Not too sure about the burbclave - it seems to be a maze of streets. “Now a burbclave, that’s the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything.” (6).
“Hiro” is not introduced by name until the second chapter. Hiro Protagionist and his roommate, Vitaly Chernobyl, lives is a spacious 20 by 30 U-Stor-It (cheap extra storage space for Californians with too many material goods) located in Ingelwood, California. Reality is such an exciting life!
Which is why Hiro spends his free time in a virtual reality via the computer. In the Metaverse, he can be who he really wants to be. He is a hacker and has a nice house in an old neighborhood just off the busiest on the street. In this virtual place, users wear a piece of software called an avatar, computer generated image. The place is crowded as well but the avatars walk right through each other.
These first few chapters bounce from physical reality to virtual reality and back again.
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