Popco
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking...
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Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781847673961 (1847673961)
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Womens,
Mathematics
If you were to sequentially lay out the events that transpired in PopCo, it wouldn't look like there's a lot going on.On the surface, it's the story of Alice Butler, a developer of children's codebreaking games for a multi-national toy company PopCo, who goes to a conference and gets chosen to devel...
This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
This is the best Scarlett Thomas book I've read so far (I loved The End of Mr Y as well, was not quite so keen on Our Tragic Universe - it had its good points, but not enough to outweigh the directionless mish mash of a story).I love the idea of it being set in a toy company. I love the protagonist...
Me ha gustado muchísimo. La mezcla entre enigmas, misterios, códigos en clave....Simplemente perfecto. Muy recomendado si te gusta hacer de "detective" y también si te gustan las matemáticas y su historia. Es muy entretenido y terminas completamente metido en la historia.
Thanks to Megan Milks for turning me on to Scarlett Thomas, who's so great. Maybe I enjoyed this so much because I worked at an evil neo-liberal web development agency at the turn of the century, but I think anyone who's critical of advertising and likes cryptography (and mysteries) will love this b...
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