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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099410683
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arrow Books, (07 October 2004)
- Number of Pages
- 927
- Weight
- 670 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 199 x 131 x 51 mm
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