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Amazon.com Review Neal 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 __ and Cryptonomicon 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 alre

Who reads Cryptonomicon?

Author

Stephenson, Neal

Publisher

HarperCollins Children's Book Group

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060512804

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Fiction, Thrillers

Rating

4.25 / 5 (1,682 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13