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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson |
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Avon, 1999 |
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2000 Locus SF Winner 2000 Clarke Nominated 2000 Hugo Nominated |
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| Sub-Genre Tags: | Near-Future Alternate History (SF) Cyberpunk |
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Synopsis
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.
Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.
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Cryptonomicon in Blogs
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Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, (Unfinished) **; Take Me With You: Tales of Long Distance Love, ed. Sarah Macdonald, 20 June 2010 ***; Earthly Delights, Kerry Greenwood, 18 June 2010 ***; Love and Other U-Turns, Louisa Deasey, ... - Anathem — Neal Stephenson « The Story's Story
Neal Stephenson answers this call for heft and then some: Cryptonomicon is a marvelous book that would demand more than a single night of insomnia to read, and yet none of it seems extraneous, or at least not in a way that deserves to ... - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Characters ...
Neal Stephenson started out writing Snow Crash and other post-cyberpunk idea-heavy techno-SF. Cryptonomicon was his breakout book, and though it was nominated for a Hugo some people said it wasn't SF at all. It's set partly in the near ... - Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Cryptonomicon via tag cloud
Cryptonomicon via tag cloud. Two tag cloud posts in a row is a bit much, but I had the idea, so I went with it. This is an infographic of the word frequency of the text of the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon ... - Information Processing: The Price of Altruism
Neal Stephenson summarizes my point well in Cryptonomicon, writing about the math prodigy Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (who, in the novel, spends time with Alan Turing at Princeton): Cryptonomicon: ... The basic problem for Lawrence ... - Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Neal Stephenson on Puritans and Victorians
The opening to Cryptonomicon, with Bobby Shaftoe making haikus while on a truck in the middle of Shanghai is pretty awesome. But it all falls apart and I don't think I've reread any of his books again. ... - Rudy's Blog » Blog Archive » Turing and the Happy Cloak
Alan Turing appears in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon which, I blush to confess, I didn't finish reading either. I myself am Rudolf “Rudy” von Bitter Rucker…when I met Neal Stephenson a year or two ago he seemed very interested ... - How Good Is Cryptonomicon? « uriel7445949
A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide ... - Anathem reactions
Neal Stephenson is the author of eight novels, including the cult successes Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon. He has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award five times, winning with Quicksilver. Three of his last four novels have ... - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
What an ambitious book! Geek fiction at its best, historical spy thriller and treaty on cryptographic algorithms - what else could you want in a book? Oh, in-depth character devolopment? Nah, that would have been TOO ambitous. ...
