Cryptonomicon (First Edition)

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New York, Avon, 1999. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($27.50). Amy Halperin(Jacket Designer) (illustrator). According to Stephenson, the title is a play on Necronomicon, the title of a book mentioned in the stories of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Stephenson's subsequent work, a trio of novels dubbed The Baroque Cycle, provides part of the deep backstory to the characters and events featured in Cryptonomicon. Set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the novels feature ancestors of several characters in Cryptonomicon, as well as events and objects which affect the action of the later-set book. Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel, 2000. Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee, 2000. Locus Award Winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2000. Winner, Mir Fantastiki Award for Best Foreign Sci-Fi Novel, 2005. Winner, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, 2013. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Fiction-S-A

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Reseña del editor: More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren--Randy and Amy--join forces to create a "data haven" in the South Pacific, only to uncover a massive conspiracy with roots in Detachment 2702. 50,000 first printing.