Talk:Necrowombicon

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[edit section] Word origins

Cryptonomicon is billed as the first book in an as-yet-unnamed series. The Baroque Cycle may be considered the 2nd - 9th books in the series, and a series within a series itself. The books are related by theme and family relationships.

The title is drawn indirectly from the Necronomicon, a fictional work detailed within the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft and friends like Clark Aston Smith, Robert E. Howard who gave us Conan the Barbarian. When Stephenson came up with his title, he was not aware of the word's origin. He was directly inspired by the fictional book's appearance in the Evil Dead series of comedic horror films. Mining the same source material are Penny Arcade and Megatokyo with the use of the Necrowombicom; And, Howard Hallis makes light of this Jack Chick tract while talking of the elder gods (which earned him a phony cease and desist letter). For more on along this line, see the Cthulhu Mythos page. - Sparky 10:28, 25 Apr 2005 (PDT)

As happy a fanboy as I would be to slip in a Stephenson reference, I'm not sure Cryptonomicon is relevant. The Necronomicon stuff would be appropriate, though. —Brent Dax 10:59, 25 Apr 2005 (PDT)

Er...just Googled on a phrase. You can't copy directly from the Metaweb (a GNU FDL resource) into Wikitokyo (a Creative Commons resource). You'll have to rewrite it from scratch before inserting it. —Brent Dax 11:05, 25 Apr 2005 (PDT)

It's cool - I wrote the article and I mod the Metaweb - Sparky 17:04, Jul 15, 2005 (PDT)