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Quicksilver: Volume one of the baroque cycle (The baroque cycle, 1) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 3: The Baroque Cycle

Stephenson, Neal

 
9780099410683: Quicksilver: Volume one of the baroque cycle (The baroque cycle, 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099410680 ISBN 13: 9780099410683
Verlag: Arrow, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil.

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Verlag
Arrow
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099410680
ISBN 13 
9780099410683
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
944
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