"The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson" Topic
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| Lord Platinum | 27 Jan 2008 10:53 p.m. PST |
Has anyone else read these three books? I'm on The Confusion (that's #2) and I think it's great. For those who haven't heard of them, this is taken from the Baroque Cycle's Wikipedia page: The story follows the adventures of a sizeable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe. Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, due to the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology. The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series. Quicksilver takes place mainly in the years between the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England (1660) and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Confusion follows Quicksilver without temporal interruption, but ranges geographically from Europe and the Mediterranean through India to Manila, Japan, and Mexico. The System of the World takes place principally in London in 1714, about ten years after the events of The Confusion. link |
| Porthos | 28 Jan 2008 3:07 a.m. PST |
It is – as always – magnificent. We meet a forefather of Bobby Shaftoe (Cryptonomicon)as well as that strange country in the North of Great Britain (and I do not mean Scotland ;-)). Both a lesson in economy and in politics of that time. But beware: if you not yet started to collect WSS-figures you are going to after reading this… |
| dvilbnny | 28 Jan 2008 10:09 a.m. PST |
My Wife is the designer (I kid you not). I will let her know you liked them. Dvilbnny |
| asa1066 | 28 Jan 2008 12:16 p.m. PST |
Awesome series. It was a lot of fun to read. I have enjoyed just about everything I've ever read by Stephenson, especially Snowcrashed and The Diamond Age. I like the tie in to Cryptonomicon in The Baroque Cycle. David S. |
| Lord Platinum | 28 Jan 2008 12:33 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I really enjoyed Qwglhm or whatever it's called. I also like how there's no real explanation of it. It's more or less just in the consciousness of everyone in the book--like it would be if it really existed. |
| Austin Rob | 28 Jan 2008 3:47 p.m. PST |
Loved them. Actually read the Baroque cycle before reading the Cryptonomicon. So when the various characters were being introduced, I know their ancestral backstories. Rob |
| Austin Rob | 28 Jan 2008 3:49 p.m. PST |
I have to admit, his descriptions of the ravages of diseases, and treatments, of the period sort of took off the romantic luster. Rob |
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