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| Description | An endlessly rich and inventive historical fiction epic from the author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, set amid the political intrigue, scientific revolution and religious conflict of 17th-century Europe. As philosophers, adventurers and spies navigate a rapidly changing world, fortunes are made and empires reshaped. 'Genius ... You'll wish it were longer.' Time magazine 'An astonishing achievement.' Sunday Telegraph WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD --------- Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, moves among the era's greatest minds, as new ideas challenge old certainties, and where the world can be changed overnight. The adventurer 'Half-Cocked Jack' escapes the streets of London and pursues fortune and infamy while the pox slowly tightens its grip. And Eliza, rescued from a Turkish harem, reinvents herself as a spy, financier and pawn of the powerful, as the age of finance is born. 'Neal Stephenson rewrites history - for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.' Wired The first book in the Baroque Cycle. | | Release Date | 2004 | | Author | Neal Stephenson | | Format | Dimensions 13.2x20.0x4.9 cm
950 pages
book | | Publisher | Random House | | Subject(s) | Fiction / Action & Adventure
Fiction / Historical / General |
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