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In the ’90s thread, the descendants of those WWII heroes are at work on an underground data haven to protect encrypted data and, ultimately, to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust from ever being repeated.īut that’s only partially what this expansive story is about.Īt its core, it’s a high-stakes adventure and a tale of family, both biological and found. In the WWII storyline, a determined group of cryptographers is desperate to break Germany’s enigma code without letting the Germans find out. Marine and continues to blast preconceptions and clichés for the next 900+ pages. The story opens with a haiku-writing U.S. This Dickensian novel by Neal Stephenson, the godfather of cyberpunk, weaves two timelines - one in WWII, the other in 1990s Silicon Valley - to tell a tale of adventure, intrigue, the Enigma code, technology, and the search for lost gold.
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