Cryptonomicon

[Henry Musikar]

I'll try to enumerate at some point, but I've been noticing a number of little touches on Stephenson books, particularly the Baroque Cycle trilogy, in ATD. Cryptomicon does use/pay respect to Pynchon. Stephenson was writing rather straightforward, decent cyberpunk before Crypt, so it seems to me that he was influence by Pynch and gives him props rather than rips him off.
Henry

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From: kelber at mindspring.com 

I'm about a third of the way through Stephenson' Cryptonomicon. At first, it felt like a blatant rip-off of (homage to?) V and GR: Navy guys, WWII, math equations inserted into the text, etc. But at this point, it's clear that S is no P. The book contains three very linear stories intertwined in very obvious ways. Of course, I'll have to reserve judgment until I've actually finished. It's very funny, though, and I'm enjoying it.

One question: references to zeta functions keep cropping up. Is P returning the homage in ATD?

Laura


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