Quicksilver
Volume one of the baroque cycle
$47.42
- Paperback
944 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2004
Summary
The first novel in Neal Stephenson’s acclaimed Baroque Cycle.
As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver is Neal Stephenson’s first novel in his acclaimed Baroque Cycle. Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil.
With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christop…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099410683 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099410680 |
| Author: | Neal Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 670g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 51mm |
| Series: | Arrow Books |
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Critics Review
[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. – Charles Shaar Murray * Independent *
Staggering diversity and detail … An astonishing achievement. * Sunday Telegraph *
A great, heaving countryside of a book…consistently funny…fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison * Telegraph *
Stephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive. * Time Out *
A breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place * Face *
A brilliant, bulging historical novel … Thrillingly accomplished … Magnificent … one finishes it already eager to begin the sequel * Guardian *
About The Author
Neal Stephenson
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.
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