Cryptonomicon
Leslie Henderson, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology and of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine
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Cryptonomicon has parallel but interconnected stories from then (WW II) and now (well, “now” when he wrote it in the late 1990s), with intrigue and technology that will keep any Big Bang theory addict happy, and, according to my dad, who served on a sub in the Pacific, a dead-on accurate description of the war.