lorax recommends Moby Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville, "Seriously. A big fat book immersing the reader in a bizarre and alien culture, with well-written infodumps on subjects of interest to the narrator interspersed (see more) throughout the story. It's a very Stephenson-esque book."

S_Meyerson recommends Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

S_Meyerson recommends The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh

bertilak recommends In code : a mathematical journey by Sarah Flannery

daysailor recommends PopCo by Scarlett Thomas, "Same kind of edgy writing, intertwining cryptography history with good story-telling"

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