“Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man.”
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<b>As extraordinary an achievement as <i>Cryptonomicon</i>, <i>Quicksilver</i> is Neal Stephenson's first novel in his acclaimed Baroque Cycle.</b><br> <br> <br> Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller <i>Cryptonomicon</i>, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil.<br> <br> 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 (<i>Snowcrash</i>,<i>The Diamond Age</i>) and for WWII (<i>Cryptonomicon</i>), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution. <i>Quicksilver</i> is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique.
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