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It should be noted that this novel takes place in the same universe as another of Stephenson's works, ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', which prominently features a number of ancestors of ''Cryptonomicon'''s characters.
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* [[Action Girl]] -- Amy Shaftoe. Naturally, since she is the granddaughter of [[Badass]] Marine Bobby Shaftoe.
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Randy warns his girlfriend and her friends early in the book about a minor scandal that erupts around "War As Text".
* [[Chekhov's Gun]] -- Quite a few minor details turn out to be important.
* [[Color-Coded Wizardry]] -- Enoch Root is also known as Enoch the Red, and Randy [[Lampshade Hanging|compares him]] to a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' wizard.
* [[Cool Old Guy]] -- Enoch Root.
* [[Cool Ship]] -- {{spoiler|''V-Million''}}.
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* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Randy's last name is Waterhouse. We don't find out until we're well into the book, and it suddenly changes the meaning of everything about him up to that point. The reader finds out when he is, quite mundanely, producing his passport.}}
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The academic conference that ultimately ruins Randy and Charlene's relationship, and also Charlene's lengthy article on beards. Similarly, the Nipponese Army, when it has to come up with terms to save face: "retrograde maneuver" (i.e. "retreat") comes up repeatedly.
* [[Shout-Out]] -- Randy compares everyone to characters and races from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. He's a dwarf, Enoch is Gandalf, Loeb is Gollum, etc.
** [[Godel Escher Bach|Gunter Enoch Bobby]] Kivistik.
* [[Shown Their Work]] -- If there's a commercial literature work that does features ''real'' cryptography, down to and including a working Perl script for a cipher commissioned from a real cryptography guru, as well as including entire lectures on information theory, it's definitely ''Cryptonomicon.''
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