Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1

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.Author: Neal StephensonPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 01/31/2006Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 6.70h x 4.20w x 1.20dISBN: 9780060833169Review Citation(s): Science 06/05/2009 pg. 1268About the AuthorStephenson, Neal: - 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.