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Weaving between two separate time lines, this novel depicts the adventures of a codebreaker, a Japanese lieutenant, and a U.S. Marine in World War II with the modern-day tale of their grandchildren, who are jointly investigating a mysterious computer program in Southeast Asia.
| Size | | Length: | 1152 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.0 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 18.9 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[CRYPTONOMICON] is very possibly the most important non-science fiction SF novel in decades."
Wolfe
"[T]he temptation to transcribe long passages is strong, so strong. CRYPTONOMICON is compulsively readable (with the Read This Part Out Loud alarm sounding every few pages), very smart, very funny, and just as often very grim."
Letson
"I expect to see, for the next decade or so, dog-eared copies of this novel rattling around on the floorboards of the Toyotas (or, increasingly, Range Rovers) that fill Silicon Valley parking lots....A yea-saying comic book for the next millennium,"Cryptonomicon" is as fascinating, and as frustrating, as a string of partly decrypted code. Behind the pixilated swagger of Stephenson's prose, you catch frequent glimpses of the genuinely first-rate novel this might have been."
Garner
"Stephenson is capable of making a U-boat firefight and a scrolling screen appear equally visceral....CRYPTONOMICON is a considerable achievement...one hope, and suspects, that Stephenson will prove a writer more than capable of looking both through and beyond the computer screen to the even bigger picture."
Times Literary Supplement - Paul Quinn (11/05/1999)
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