Editing Cryptonomicon (section)

==Literary significance and criticism==
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According to critic [[Jay Clayton (critic)|Jay Clayton]], the book is written for a technical or [[geek]] audience.<ref name="Clayton2006"/> Despite the technical detail, the book drew praise from both Stephenson's science fiction fan base and literary critics and buyers.<ref>{{cite news | first=Michael | last=Berry | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/05/09/RV32987.DTL&hw=Cryptonomicon&sn=001&sc=1000 | title=900 Pages + Lots of Math = Weird Fun | date=1999-05-09 | newspaper = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |access-date=2007-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first=Nathan | last=Bruinooge | url=http://slashdot.org/books/99/06/23/139229.shtml | title= Review:Cryptonomicon | date=1999-06-23 | publisher = [[Slashdot]] |access-date=2007-08-27}}</ref> In Clayton's book ''Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture'' (2003), he calls Stephenson's book the "ultimate geek novel" and draws attention to the "literary-scientific-engineering-military-industrial-intelligence alliance" that produced discoveries in two eras separated by fifty years, World War II and the Internet age.<ref name="Clayton2006">{{cite book|author=Jay Clayton|title=Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pITpzHJOqboC&pg=PA204|access-date=8 May 2011|date=14 April 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press US|isbn=978-0-19-531326-0|page=204}}</ref> In July 2012, [[io9]] included the book on its list of "10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read".<ref name="io9ten">{{cite news |first=Charlie Jane |last=Anders |author-link=Charlie Jane Anders |work=[[io9]] |title=10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them) |url=http://io9.com/5924625/10-science-fiction-novels-you-pretend-to-have-read-and-why-you-should-actually-read-them |date=July 10, 2012 |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref>