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Cryptonomicon (eBook) by Neal Stephenson
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- Author: Neal Stephenson
- Print Length: 1168 pages
- 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, crypt analyst 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 exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
- All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes - inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe - team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Editor's Notes
Written by Discombobulated | Staff- Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, this techno-thriller, Cryptonomicon, is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow
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Various Digital Retailers have Cryptonomicon (eBook) by Neal Stephenson on sale for $1.99. listed below.
Thanks to Community Member Kyven for finding this deal.
Thanks to Community Member Kyven for finding this deal.
Note, must purchase from the available digital retailers
Available From:
Available From:
- HarperCollins Publishers via Amazon (Kindle)
- Eligible Prime members may apply their earned No-Rush Shipping credits to this purchase (check your balance).
- Harper Collins via Google Play
- Apple Books
- Barnes & Noble (Nook)
- Kobo
- Author: Neal Stephenson
- Print Length: 1168 pages
- 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, crypt analyst 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 exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
- All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes - inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe - team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Editor's Notes
Written by Discombobulated | Staff- Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, this techno-thriller, Cryptonomicon, is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Only consider reading this if you think Stephen King books are bit too fast-paced for you. This book is a slog.
Only consider reading this if you think Stephen King books are bit too fast-paced for you. This book is a slog.
Only consider reading this if you think Stephen King books are bit too fast-paced for you. This book is a slog.
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Sadly, most regular people can't even say the title right. They call it the Cryptomicon, completely missing the deeper artistic structure of the word. They probably think it's just a Cryptocomicon for Bitcoin nerds, but it is actually way more complex than that.
For me, reading this book was like eating a giant salad of knowledge, a total Croutonomicon for the brain. I spent all night just devouring the pages, going Cryptonomnomnom on every single chapter.
In conclusion, this is a great book for anyone who operates on a much higher thinking level, like myself.
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