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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
1-84115-764-3

Originally published
  
2004

Genre
  
Novel

Publisher
  
3.8/5
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Publication date
  
2004

Pages
  
452 pp

OCLC
  
59355647

Author
  
Followed by
  
The End of Mr. Y

Country
  
Great Britain

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Scarlett Thomas books, Fiction books

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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.

Contents

The novel has been compared to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, with similarities including a buried treasure subplot and flashbacks to Bletchley Park.

PopCo was a 2004 book of the year in Time Out and The Independent on Sunday

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