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Octavo, boards. One of 250 signed and numbered copies prepared by the publisher on a tipped in sheet. Hugo Award nominee for best novel. A prelude to the author's "Baroque Cycle" of novels. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1075]. Fine in a fine dust jacket. (15103).

Cryptonomicon weaves together multiple narratives spanning different time periods. The book follows the complex stories of the Waterhouse family and their involvement in World War II codebreaking and present-day software development, and the Shaftoe family, whose members include a World War II Marine and a present-day treasure hunter. Interlacing mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, and technology, Stephenson crafts a complex and engaging tale.