'What cyberculture needs right now is not another science-fiction novel but its first great historical novel, and Cryptonomicon is it: an intimate genealogical portrait of the 20th century's computer geeks, great and small, and of the technosocial landscape they have more and less knowingly shaped.' - Julian Dibbell, Village Voice.He is less adept at the political and philosophical links between the idea of the data haven and the realities of the conspiracies it spawns' - Paul Quinn, Times Literary Supplement (.) (I)ts control of set-pieces is assured - Stephenson is capable of making a U-boat firefight and a scrolling screen appear equally visceral. 'Where Cryptonomicon works resoundingly well is in providing us with a revealing and highly entertaining hacker anthropology.Behind the pixilated swagger of Stephenson's prose, you catch frequent glimpses of the genuinely first-rate novel this might have been.' - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review

'A yea-saying comic book for the next millennium, Cryptonomicon is as fascinating, and as frustrating, as a string of partly decrypted code.

'It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek.' - Lev Grossman, Entertainment Weekly.

Minor quibbles about it being an uneven (and unwieldy) book, some disappointment regarding the ending, but otherwise fairly enthusiastic in their praise. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪ- : a big, broad, ambitious, well-told entertainment Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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