- Save $10 when you spend $50 and pay with Bill Me Later. The fast and convenient way to buy without using your credit card. Offer limited to items purchased from Amazon.com between July 14, 2008 and July 21, 2008. One per customer account. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
Cryptonomicon
and over 140,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more
 |
 |
 |
|
Discover our featured science fiction titles by Neal Stephenson. |
|
 |
|
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Best Value
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson  (535)
$10.20
|
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson  (308)
$10.85
|
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson  (76)
$8.99
|
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) by Neal Stephenson (65)
$8.99
|
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson (330)
$10.20
|
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, 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 Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, 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 Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
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 commun