Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
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Including a cast of characters such as Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, this book shows the ability to get inside a place and time; and more.
[A] massive tour-de-force- Dense, witty, erudite, packed with fascinating characters, and gripping despite a distended length, Quicksilver is both a worthy prequel to Cryptonomicon, and an indication that Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called "serious" fiction - No scholarly, and intellectually provocative, historical novel has been this much fun since The Name of the Rose.
Staggering diversity and detail ... An astonishing achievement.
A great, heaving countryside of a book...consistently funny...fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison
Stephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive.
A breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
[A] massive tour-de-force- Dense, witty, erudite, packed with fascinating characters, and gripping despite a distended length, Quicksilver is both a worthy prequel to Cryptonomicon, and an indication that Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called "serious" fiction - No scholarly, and intellectually provocative, historical novel has been this much fun since The Name of the Rose.
Staggering diversity and detail ... An astonishing achievement.
A great, heaving countryside of a book...consistently funny...fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison
Stephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive.
A breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.