9780434008179: Quicksilver
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0434008176 ISBN 13: 9780434008179
Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien...Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root, the ancestors of his central characters in the previous book, following them from their childhoods in London, to education at Cambridge amidst the political and religious fervour and tensions of the Reformation, through the English Civil War, and travels as far as afield as Poland and the American colonies. With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (Snowcrash, The Diamond Age) and for WWII (Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution. Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Neal Stephenson is the author of five previous novels and co-author (with Frederick George) of two more. He lives in Seattle.

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Verlag
William Heinemann Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0434008176
ISBN 13 
9780434008179
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
944
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