- PopCo
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name = PopCo
orig title =
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author =Scarlett Thomas
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country =Great Britain
language = English
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genre =Novel
publisher =Harper Perennial
release_date = 2004
media_type = Print
pages = 452 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-84115-764-3
preceded_by = Going Out (2002)
followed_by =The End of Mr. Y (2006)PopCo (2004) is a novel by British author
Scarlett Thomas . It tells a story of twenty-nine-year-old Alice Butler, a quirky, fiercely intelligent loner with an affinity for secret codes and mathematics. She works for the huge toy company named PopCo, where she creates snooping kids' kits - KidSpy, KidTec and KidCracker. At the company conference Alice and her colleagues are brought into developing the ultimate product for the teenage girls.It bears more than a few similarities to
Cryptonomicon byNeil Stephenson , including a buried treasure subplot and flashbacks toBletchley Park ."PopCo" was a 2004 book of the year in "
Time Out " and "The Independent on Sunday "External links
* [http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_10_006793.php Bookslut review of "PopCo"]
* [http://math.cofc.edu/kasman/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf476 A Mathematician reviews "PopCo"]
* [http://www.bookgirl.org/index.php?page=more_about_popco "PopCo" Trivia]
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