In Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist is called on by YT to help her get out of jail when she was caught in a burbclave without a permit.
How did Hiro help her out if he was in the Black Sun with David watching him have his system crash after doing Snow Crash?
The book literally jumps from Hiro in the club to YT calling Hiro and him showing up to Hiro in the club again as if he was never gone....
Or I missed something...
The book isn't wholly chronological. When Hiro is in the Black Sun, he is jacked in from inside the U-Stor-It he shares with Vitally. He doesn't meet Vitally until after YT tips him off about his band, which happens at the very end of the sequence where he's helping her out of the Clink, after the bit about the Rat Things.
From my reads of the book, I always felt like the beginning "Deliverator" bit was added after the book was largely complete, to give a more exciting intro.
Hiro rescuing YT occurs the night he and YT met, 5 weeks prior to Hiro going the The Black Sun, so there is no conflict.
The time sequence of the early portions of Snow Crash is:
Chapter 3: Sometime later ("a few short weeks" after he lost his job as a pizza Deliverator), Hiro lives with Vitaly. He goes to the Metaverse
Chapter 5: In the Metaverse, Hiro heads to the Black Sun - encounters Raven
Chapter 7: In the Black Sun, Hiro sees Juanita, remembers their past
Chapter 8: Hiro talks with Juanita.
Chapter 9: Da5id infected and thrown out of the Black Sun
Chapter 11: Hiro duels in the Black Sun
Chapter 13: Post-duel: in Reality, Hiro heads to a concert with Vitaly; in the Metaverse, Hiro meets the Librarian
Chapter 14: Hiro is still in the library - YT is following the van with Hiro and Vitaly in reality.
Chapter 15: Hiro at the concert (Lagos says Hiro was fired 36 days earlier).
From this point on, YT's and Hiro's chapters are mostly in synch, with Hiro learning about Sumeria, while YT gets employed by the Mafia and Mr. Ng.
