Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1

ISBN-13: 9780060833169 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2006 / 480 str.

Neal Stephenson

Opis

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

Recenzje

"Genius . . . You'll wish it were longer." Time magazine

O autorze

Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.