Quicksilver

Volume one of the baroque cycle

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Beschreibung

<p><b>An endlessly rich and inventive historical fiction epic from the author of <i>Snow Crash</i> and <i>Cryptonomicon</i>, 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.<br><br><i>'Genius ... You'll wish it were longer.' Time magazine</i><br><br><i>'An astonishing achievement.' Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD</b><br><br>---------<br><br>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.<br><br>The adventurer 'Half-Cocked Jack' escapes the streets of London and pursues fortune and infamy while the pox slowly tightens its grip.<br><br>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.<br><br><b><i>'Neal Stephenson rewrites history - for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.' Wired</i><br><br>The first book in the Baroque Cycle.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099410683

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 130 x 53 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd