The two are a part of the so-called Detachment 2702, a subgroup of the Allies that aims to break the Axis’ codes of communication while trying to keep everything under wraps. The characters we follow in the 40s are Lawrence Waterhouse, a cryptanalyst, and Bobby Shaftoe, a morphine-addict marine. We move between the past of the Second World War and the present day. Cryptonomicon is a novel that takes us to many places all over the globe. Cryptonomicon was published in the year of 1999 and it spans upwards of eleven hundred pages. With that said, let’s take a peek at what we think are the best Neal Stephenson books.Ĭryptonomicon, one of the most popular Stephenson books, leaves no one surprised we chose it for our list. Presently, Stephenson resides in Seattle with his family. Neal graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in geography, with a minor in physics, in 1981. Neal attended Boston University where he specialized in physics before changing it to geography upon discovering that this change would enable him to have more time on the mainframe of the university.
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