Description
Product ID: | 9780099410676 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Cryptonomicon |
Authors: | Author: Neal Stephenson |
Page Count: | 928 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Science fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present. A gripping and page-turning thriller that explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century. From the author of the three-volume historical epic ''The Baroque Cycle'' and Seveneves. |
Imprint Name: | Arrow Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Cornerstone |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2000-04-27 |