Quicksilver

Neal Stephenson

Book 1 of The Baroque Cycle

Language: English

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Science Fiction

Published: Jan 31, 2006

Date Read: Aug 18, 2012
Form: Novel
Pages: 1620
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 384676

Description:

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.