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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewNeal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to __, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to __ andCryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Neal Stephenson
Publisher
Arrow Books
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780099410676
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
4.25 / 5 (840 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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