Quicksilver

[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 *
A brilliant, bulging historical novel … Thrillingly accomplished … Magnificent … one finishes it already eager to begin the sequel * Guardian *

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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