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CRYPTONOMICON.
New York: Avon Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Promotional material from the publisher laid in. "This complex and ambitious cyber-thriller, which begs comparison with Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, features half a dozen well- conceived plot lines. During World War II, the mathematical genius and cryptographer Lawrence Waterhouse, a friend of Alan Turing, is instrumental in breaking the Nazi's Enigma code. Some 60 years later, his grandson Randy, a computer hacker, is involved in setting up a small- scale, but high-tech data haven in Southeast Asia, only to find out that his project has attracted the attention of a number of powerful governments, multinational corporations, and secret organizations. Randy also discovers evidence of a secret conspiracy that may be centuries old." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075. Locus Award winner. Hugo Award nominee for best novel. A prelude to the author's "Baroque Cycle" of novels. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075].
CRYPTONOMICON.
New York: Avon Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "This complex and ambitious cyber-thriller, which begs comparison with Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, features half a dozen well- conceived plot lines. During World War II, the mathematical genius and cryptographer Lawrence Waterhouse, a friend of Alan Turing, is instrumental in breaking the Nazi's Enigma code. Some 60 years later, his grandson Randy, a computer hacker, is involved in setting up a small- scale, but high-tech data haven in Southeast Asia, only to find out that his project has attracted the attention of a number of powerful governments, multinational corporations, and secret organizations. Randy also discovers evidence of a secret conspiracy that may be centuries old." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075. Locus Award winner. Hugo Award nominee for best novel. A prelude to the author's "Baroque Cycle" of novels.
CRYPTONOMICON.
New York: Avon Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing. "This complex and ambitious cyber-thriller, which begs comparison with Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, features half a dozen well-conceived plot lines. During World War II, the mathematical genius and cryptographer Lawrence Waterhouse, a friend of Alan Turing, is instrumental in breaking the Nazi's Enigma code. Some 60 years later, his grandson Randy, a computer hacker, is involved in setting up a small-scale, but high-tech data haven in Southeast Asia, only to find out that his project has attracted the attention of a number of powerful governments, multinational corporations, and secret organizations. Randy also discovers evidence of a secret conspiracy that may be centuries old." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075. Locus Award winner. Hugo Award nominee for best novel. A prelude to the author's "Baroque Cycle" of novels.
CRYPTONOMICON.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2012. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. Of 526 numbered and lettered copies, this copy is marked "PC." "This complex and ambitious cyber-thriller, which begs comparison with Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, features half a dozen well-conceived plot lines. During World War II, the mathematical genius and cryptographer Lawrence Waterhouse, a friend of Alan Turing, is instrumental in breaking the Nazi's Enigma code. Some 60 years later, his grandson Randy, a computer hacker, is involved in setting up a small-scale, but high-tech data haven in Southeast Asia, only to find out that his project has attracted the attention of a number of powerful governments, multinational corporations, and secret organizations. Randy also discovers evidence of a secret conspiracy that may be centuries old." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075. Locus Award winner. Hugo Award nominee for best novel. A prelude to the author's "Baroque Cycle" of novels.
THE DIAMOND AGE.
NY: Bantam, 1995. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best novel. 1995 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1076. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #43. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
THE DIAMOND AGE.
NY: Bantam, 1995. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best novel. 1995 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1076. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #43. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
SEVENEVES.
[New York]: William Morrow, [2015]. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. Advance Reading copy.
SNOW CRASH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where he must use his hacker skills to fight a deadly new computer virus. Stephenson's first SF novel (he had previously written a couple of environmentalist thrillers), and something of a trendy cult book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 332. "The action, and there's a lot of noisy action, is powered by a conspiracy involving a Secret History of the last 4000 years, the Tower of Babel, a cult predating the Babylonians, and much else ... Knowing and acerbic, a dazzling hyperkinetic dance down the mean streets of cyberspace and back up again into the sunlight." - Paul McAuley, Interzone. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
SNOW CRASH.
New York: Del Rey, [2022]. Octavo, boards. New edition. Signed by Stephenson. Deluxe 30th anniversary edition with some new material. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where he must use his hacker skills to fight a deadly new computer virus. Stephenson's first SF novel (he had previously written a couple of environmentalist thrillers), and something of a trendy cult book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 332. "The action, and there's a lot of noisy action, is powered by a conspiracy involving a Secret History of the last 4000 years, the Tower of Babel, a cult predating the Babylonians, and much else ... Knowing and acerbic, a dazzling hyperkinetic dance down the mean streets of cyberspace and back up again into the sunlight." - Paul McAuley, Interzone. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
SNOW CRASH.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2008. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. Of 526 numbered and lettered copies, this copy is marked "PC." "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where he must use his hacker skills to fight a deadly new computer virus. Stephenson's first SF novel (he had previously written a couple of environmentalist thrillers), and something of a trendy cult book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 332. "The action, and there's a lot of noisy action, is powered by a conspiracy involving a Secret History of the last 4000 years, the Tower of Babel, a cult predating the Babylonians, and much else ... Knowing and acerbic, a dazzling hyperkinetic dance down the mean streets of cyberspace and back up again into the sunlight." - Paul McAuley, Interzone. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].