Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periodsWorld War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. Theyre part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the units strange workings to Waterhouse. When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first Of course, to observe is not its real dutywe already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious., All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII h
