Quicksilver (2003) is the first of three volumes in the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, itself made up of three books. I may be wrong, but the cycle seems to me to be a fictional account of the beginning of the modern period in history and the Enlightenment. Each of the three books [...]
King of the Vagabonds is the second book of the Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle and the second book in the first volume Quicksilver (2003) (see previous review). This book is very different from it predecessor. In fact it has an entirely different cast of characters. Gottfried Leibniz made a cameo in book 1 appears in [...]
I’ve begun reading The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. In quote I found on Wikipedia, Stephenson describes the Baroque Cycle thusly:
“Why Baroque? Because it is set in the Baroque, and it is baroque. Why Cycle? Because I am trying to avoid the T-word (”trilogy”). In my mind this work is something like 7 or 8 [...]
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