num_pages: 918
description: Mass Market Paperback with 1152 pgs. Copyright 1999. 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. A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers, secrets, gold, spies, codemakers and codbreakers, conspiracies, power; pirates, prisoners, lovers and great escapes from one of the boldest imaginations in comtempory fiction.
language: English
title: CRYPTONOMICON.
titlecomplete: CRYPTONOMICON.
characters: Robert Shaftoe, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, Rudolf von Hacklheber, Douglas MacArthur, Alan Turing, Earl Comstock, Enoch Root
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, War, Thriller, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 110466
places: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, The Philippines, Southeast Asia
series: Crypto
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: William Heinemann