New York: Avon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hugo Award winning writer's massive novel, which was also shortlisted for the Hugo and winner of the Locus Award. An amazing tour de force involving Nazi cryptography Enigma code and project Arethusa, leaping between World War II history and the near future Worldwide Web, while hinting at a dark tomorrow for personal and digital liberty. "great art, thought and creative daring; a truely iconoclastic imagination working with white hot intensity." Relatively small first printing.. 918 pp. ISBN: 0-380-97346-4.