In the summer of 1996, on assignment for WIRED magazine, Neal Stephenson, a hacker/tourist, wandered through the less travelled subterrain of three continents, tracing the ports of call of FLAG — the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe. After filing an epic 39-page article (Wired 4.12, December 1996), he began work on another epic, a 950-page [...]
Reviews by
Woody Brown
November 15th, 1999
Cryptonomicon
in Books