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020 $a9780060575502 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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100 1 $aStephenson, Neal $q(Neal Stephenson).
245 10 $aCryptonomicon$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c2003.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aE-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal's landmark nonfiction account of, among other techno-feats, the laying of the longest telecommunications cable on earth); THREE: "Press Conference": Neal answers "Why write about crypto?" and other penetrating questions.The smash New York Times bestseller and cult classic is at last a special-features-loaded e-book. Dashing between World War II and the present day, Cryptonomicon is an epic adventure of codemakers and codebreakers; soldiers, hackers, spies, pirates, lovers, prisoners; power, secrets, conspiracies, great escapes -- and a buried fortune in gold."Engrossing ́Œ insightful ... fascinating and often hysterical... Cryptonomicon is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high-tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure... But that's only half of it." ́USA Today "Hell of a read." ́WiredNeal Stephenson (Snow Crash; The Diamond Age) hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped the twentieth century ́ and that have led us into the twenty-first. 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 Waterhouse and Detachment 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 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 granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine 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 ́Œ or to universal totalitarianism reborn. 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 Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cHarperCollins,$d2003.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5755 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1759 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 2004 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5755 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1759 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 2004 KB).
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653 #0 $aLiterature
653 #0 $aScience Fiction
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