Cultural Impact
Many books and articles have been written about the manuscript. The first facsimile edition was published in 2005, Le Code Voynich: the whole manuscript published with a short presentation in French. Because of heavy image cropping this does not quite constitute a proper facsimile edition.
The manuscript has also inspired several works of fiction, including The Voynich Cypher by Russell Blake, The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery by Enrique Joven, The Voynich Enigma by Baz Cunningham, "The Book of Blood and Shadow" by Robin Wasserman, The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising by James K. Rollins, Time Riders: The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow, Codex by Lev Grossman, and PopCo by Scarlett Thomas.
The manuscript was featured in Season 1, Episode 3 of the TV show Weird or What?.
The manuscript was featured in Season 2, Episode 2 of the National Geographic Channel's TV show Ancient X-Files.
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