Neal Stephenson

Broschiertes Buch

Quicksilver

The Baroque Cycle #1

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World , The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Produktdetails

• The Baroque Cycle 1
• Verlag: HarperCollins US
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 108mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780060833169
• ISBN-10: 0060833165
• Artikelnr.: 21256293

Rezensionen

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

[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