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	The Modern Word - Cryptonomicon Review
		Early in the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a student of mathematics at Princeton University, is bicycling late at night through the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
		Indeed, Cryptonomicon seems to be about Everything, or at the very least, the use of symbol systems and decryption to discover the true nature of Everything.
		Cryptonomicon is an immense but fascinating work, effortlessly pulled off by an author accustomed to mining the veins of pop culture as much as his own technical background.
	www.themodernword.com /review_cryptonomicon.html (1434 words)

	Cryptonomicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cryptonomicon referred to in the novel— described as a "cryptographer's bible" — is a fictional book summarizing mankind's knowledge of cryptography and cryptanalysis.
		Portions of Cryptonomicon are notably complex and may be considered somewhat difficult by the non-technical reader.
		The original hardcover edition of Cryptonomicon had numerous typos, and there has been widespread speculation that these typos were deliberate and constitute a steganographically hidden code [1] [2] [3].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cryptonomicon (733 words)

	Mindjack Magazine /books
		Cryptonomicon is by far Neal Stephenson's longest and far-reaching novel to date.
		Since Cryptonomicon deals with cryptography, and cryptography has lots of math and technology behind it, I was a little concerned going into the book that it would bog down at times as Stephenson tried to explain things in these areas.
		There was some talk of technology and math, and a description of what has to be one of the greatest uses for those little green lights in the upper right hand part of a computer keyboard (I'm not giving this one away, read the book).
	www.mindjack.com /books/crypt.html (979 words)

	jeff hester.net: Cryptonomicon
		A departure from his earlier science fiction writing, Cryptonomicon is a historic fiction with several parallel storylines that eventually weave together in the present day.
		As you might expect, Cryptonomicon deals heavily with cryptography, as it was used in WWII and today in encryption.
		The women of Cryptonomicon are largely ornaments decorating the lives of the men whom the story revolves around.
	www.jeffhester.net /archives/2005/03/cryptonomicon.php (409 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of the noteworthy features of the novel CRYPTONOMICON is that it contains a new cryptosystem invented by Bruce Schneier, called Solitaire (though in the actual text of the novel it goes by a different name for a while).
		It has been pointed out that the word "Cryptonomicon" bears obvious similarities to "Cyphernomicon," which is the title of a cypherpunk FAQ document by Tim May.
		Since electronic copies of CRYPTONOMICON are subject to U.S. Government export controls, it raises the obvious question as to whether the publisher or I will attempt to make an issue of this by either (1) applying for an export license, or (2) exporting it anyway to see if the Commerce Department will come after us.
	www.well.com /user/neal/cypherFAQ.html (2463 words)

	Iang's Library - Crypto Fiction
		Cryptonomicon is an achievment, with a deserved 5 random bits of entropy, and it will become the novel against which all others are compared.
		Cryptonomicon has a deeper underlying significance that most will have written off as plot.
		Like Cryptonomicon, the historical protagonist is a mathematician at the core of the code breaking effort.
	iang.org /crypto_fiction (1719 words)

	Cryptonomicon (ISBN 0060512806): Very Well Said™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cryptonomicon is one of the best books I've read in the past several years.
		Cryptonomicon, which has been well-summarized in other reviews, is several books in one: we go back and forth between Randy in the fairly recent past, in the Phillippines, and Bobby Shaftoe and Lawrence Waterhouse during WWII.
		Cryptonomicon is like that: strange, inventive, surprising, regularly amazingly amazing, and satisfying in the extreme.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/c/cryptonomicon-0060512806.php (9322 words)

	Cryptonomicon - PowerBookSearch!
		Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Cryptonomicon, is an immense and extraordinary tale that unwinds with all the stylistic grandeur his fans have come to expect.
		With Cryptonomicon, the reader is quickly plunged into a bizarre, breakneck-paced story that interweaves World War II code making and code breaking with computerized global corporate takeovers, one that melds elements of Catch-22, A Man Called Intrepid, and a hefty dose of cyberpunk reality.
		Cryptonomicon is a must-read, don't-miss extravaganza that the world will be talking about for years to come.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0380788624.html (2481 words)

	‘Cryptonomicon’ looks at digital divide - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Cryptonomicon" is an ambitious epic, telling four different tales taking place both during World War II and today's digital epoch.
		It is disheartening when a novel bulldozes its way through history and cryptography — tying them into a plot populated by idiosyncratic and richly-drawn characters — only to end with an absurd chase through the jungle involving a psychopathic lawyer with a bow and arrow.
		"Cryptonomicon" is at its strongest when slicing through the time barriers, peeling back layers to showcase everything from World War II technology to digital cryptography.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=2937 (688 words)

	Review - Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A yea-saying comic book for the next millennium, Cryptonomicon is as fascinating, and as frustrating, as a string of partly decrypted code.
		Cryptonomicon is just that and there are a lot of great things people have said about it.
		In the case of Cryptonomicon, it as a matter of such abruptness that one feels the editor suddenly gave up, skipped a few chapters, tacked on the last few pages, called it a day and sent the thing to the printers.
	www.inchoatus.com /Reviews/Cryptonomicon.htm (1562 words)

	Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
		Cryptonomicon is equal parts historical novel, set during World War II, and modern-day high tech thriller.
		Cryptonomicon is not a small book and Stephenson is able to introduce several plot threads which he can tie together in the space which he has allotted himself.
		However, Cryptonomicon is also only the first book in a series (according to the text on the fly-leaf).
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/crypto.html (387 words)

	Cryptonomicon \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Cryptonomicon showcases Stephenson's well-established strengths, especially his ironic, hyperactive writing style.
		More importantly, the depiction of World War II covers historical ground usually ignored by other authors, and it will create fresh horror in the minds of readers who have become inured to the standard imagery of the era.
		Overall, Cryptonomicon transcends its weaknesses to offer plenty of food for thought, and it does so without sacrificing humor or entertainment value.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw4320.html (574 words)

	Cryptonomicon
		Cryptonomicon is a book about cryptography by Neal Stephenson.
		Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present.
		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.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/cryptonomicon.html (245 words)

	Neal Stephenson Decodes Cryptonomicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In his massive novel, Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson tells an intricate, fast-paced story of World War II codebreakers, stashes of Axis gold, modern-day data havens, and digital currency.
		Cryptonomicon has enough tech to tantalize any cyberpunk fan -- everything from undersea fiber-optic cables to a Perl script to try out at home.
		No. This novel, Cryptonomicon, is eventually going to be part of a series of novels about crypto that cover a long span of historical time.
	www.cyberhaven.com /books/sciencefiction/stephensoninterview.html (1825 words)

	Wired 7.06: Street Cred
		Cryptonomicon begins in Shanghai in 1941, where haiku-writing corporal Bobby Shaftoe and his Marine Corps pals are bugging out in preparation for war with the Japanese.
		Stephenson, however, lives up to his reputation as a steely-eyed word hacker, driving the story along with prose thick with cultural references and a plot that needs a substantial wood pulp infrastructure to support it.
		That makes Cryptonomicon a hell of a read, even if it's not quite the prognosticative tale we're used to from this whiz kid.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/7.06/streetcred.html?pg=2 (393 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Cryptonomicon : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It's not a book for kids, and there are enough explicit passages to raise a blush in the modest, but it's simply too good to pass up.
		Cryptonomicon is a joyful, twitchy giant of a story, an enormous tribute to courage and brilliance, as funny and exciting and informative a book as any science fiction fan could hope to read.
		From the war to cryptology, from the rambling mind of genius to the peculiar obsessive-compulsiveness of masculinity, Neal Stephenson knows his business, and he puts it to use telling a great story.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=19 (606 words)

	Cryptonomicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Neal Stephenson, author of two acclaimed technologically-oriented science fiction novels, has written a gripping historical adventure-thriller, with an exploration of cryptography, and its myriad uses, at its core.
		Reading Cryptonomicon is like riding two horses charging down separate but parallel tracks.
		Cryptonomicon should cheer the heart of hacker everywhere, but as attested by its arrival on the world's best-seller lists, it will find favour with a general audience as well.
	www.nwo.net /osall/Store/Books/Fiction/Cryptonomicon/cryptonomicon.html (812 words)

	Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
		Cryptonomicon is Neal Stephenson's fourth novel, and I'm pleased to be able to say that it shows a steady progression in his skill as a writer.
		Cryptonomicon has both, and in addition a new mastery of the craft of writing.
		Even better, these little delights are smoothly integrated into the fabric of the book, never running away with it, as a less steady hand might allow them to.
	www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Stephenson/Cryptonomicon.html (420 words)

	Cryptonomicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After reading through Cryptonomicon, I'm struck by what a romantic book it is in places.
		Avi is a thouroughly modern Jewish man who is quite devout and has a deep love for his wife.
		Cryptonomicon draws you in and keeps you there during the whole book.
	mah.everybody.org /books/cryptonomicon (361 words)

	Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon - an infinity plus review
		Cryptonomicon doesn't sound like a blockbuster but really it is, and in the very best sense of the word.
		Bobby Shaftoe's experiences of combat are written in a curiously deadpan and bleak tone, bringing to mind Raymond Carver (again) as he might have written a war story: men die and keep on dying until those doing the killing die themselves in turn.
		Stephenson also has his own cryptonomicon of obscure words that will need some looking up ("sinter" is his favourite, appearing at least twice - it means "to form large particles or lumps from (metal powders or powdery ores) by heating or pressure or both," so now you know!).
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/crypto.htm (1022 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cryptonomicon: Books: Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods- -World War II and the present.
		Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail and so precise it's exhausting.
		Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0099410672 (1629 words)

	Slashdot \| Review:Cryptonomicon
		Cryptonomicon is about crypto, which is to say cryptology, which is to say it's about codes.
		Cryptonomicon's World War Two subplot is timely in its arrival, what with the upsurge in interest in the period marked, for example, by Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's bestselling book The Greatest Generation.
		Cryptonomicon takes us through the origins of the computer on the one hand and their fringe applications with cryptologically-obsessed hackers on the other; in both cases he knows of what he speaks.
	slashdot.org /books/99/06/23/139229.shtml (3137 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Cryptonomicon at Epinions.com
		Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon is a thousand pages of his agile, informative, thought-provoking, and frequently hilarious digressions.
		Here he moves away from that realm; Cryptonomicon is not speculative fiction, but a historical fiction/adventure novel with two threads which come together (sort of) at the end.
		The stories center around two generations of the Shaftoe and Waterhouse families, and vast quantities of ill-gotten Japanese and German gold hidden in the Philippines toward the end of WWII.
	www.epinions.com /content_93026029188 (971 words)

	Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0380788624
		I've read Cryptonomicon twice now and am convinced that while this is very tough read, it is both highly entertaining and extremely educational.
		Waterhouse has added large sections to the Cryptonomicon, the compendium of all crypto knowledge, as a result of his work.
		The other part of the story involves Randy Waterhouse (grandson of Lawrence) and his new company Epiphyte trying to develop a data haven in the south Pacific and the various legal and technical troubles that it involves and the enemies they accrue.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0380788624 (1330 words)

	Paper Frigate: Stephenson: Cryptonomicon - Hidden Treasures
		Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is a marvelous roller-coaster ride through code-making and breaking, with a side order of treasure-hunting, twenty-first-century style.
		Stephenson says Cryptonomicon is not prerequisite for his Baroque Cycle (beginning with Quicksilver), but I think you miss more than one flavorful nuance by jumping straight to the hefty code-and-signal involvement of Quicksilver.
		This is science fiction in the same way that the early James Bond novels were, speculation wrapped in current events, then tossed just over the line into next week.
	paperfrigate.blogspot.com /2004/09/stephenson-cryptonomicon-hidden.html (444 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Cryptonomicon
		So despite the fact that I jumped at the chance to review Cryptonomicon, his latest and most ambitious book by far, I was perhaps just a bit apprehensive.
		Cryptonomicon alternates between the 40s, where the infant science of cryptography is winning World War II for the allies, and the 90s, where an eclectic group of businessmen, hackers, and thieves are using the same science to create an Internet data haven.
		I get the impression that Stephenson would have made Cryptonomicon even longer if he could -- the ending seems tacked on, as if he had to cut it short to be marketable.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/cry57.htm (760 words)

	Cryptonomicon - Kaedrin Books
		The settings of Cryptonomicon are vaguely historic, augmented by a few fictional pseudo-nations.
		The supporting cast is populated with a few historic figures, including Alan Turing, General Douglas McArthur and Ronald Reagan, and it is partly set against the backdrop of World War II.
		Cryptonomicon is a long book, so if my brief introduction seems lame, that's because it is. 900+ pages gives Stephenson ample time and space to flesh out the characters and the situations at a leisurely pace.
	kaedrin.com /fun/books/crypto.html (1165 words)

	Any Neil Stephenson fans? (Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon, etc) - Fans Of Reality TV
		Cryptonomicon was okaaay, but I'm having a hard time getting into the Baroque Cycle.
		I have been reading Cryptonomicon over the past few months, and it is excellent.
		I loved Snowcrash, and I thought Cryptonomicon was a fast read and very good - but the Baroque Cycle has lost me. I read the first one, and the second one sits here in my desk drawer at work, unread.
	www.fansofrealitytv.com /forums/showthread.php?t=43251 (736 words)

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