Description
Book SynopsisIncluding a cast of characters such as Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, this book shows the ability to get inside a place and time; and more.
Trade Review[A] massive tour-de-force- Dense, witty, erudite, packed with fascinating characters, and gripping despite a distended length,
Quicksilver is both a worthy prequel to
Cryptonomicon, and an indication that Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called "serious" fiction - No scholarly, and intellectually provocative, historical novel has been this much fun since
The Name of the Rose. -- Charles Shaar Murray * Independent *
Staggering diversity and detail ... An astonishing achievement. * Sunday Telegraph *
A great, heaving countryside of a book...consistently funny...fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison * Telegraph *
Stephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive. * Time Out *
A breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place * Face *
