7/8/2023 0 Comments Quicksilver by neal stephenson![]() Stephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive. Morrow, 27.95 (944pp) ISBN 978-2-0 Stephenson's very long historical novel, the first volume of a projected. Publication date 2004 Topics Adventure stories, Seventeenth century, Eighteenth century, Scientists, Alchemists Publisher New York. one finishes it already eager to begin the sequel GuardianĪ great, heaving countryside of a nsistently funny.fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison Telegraph QUICKSILVER: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson. Charles Shaar Murray, IndependentĪ breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place FaceĪ brilliant, bulging historical novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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