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Quicksilver The Baroque Cycle #1

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ISBN-10: 0060833165

ISBN-13: 9780060833169

Edition: N/A

Authors: Neal Stephenson

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In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
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Book details

List price: $8.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 4.19" wide x 6.75" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author, was born on October 31, 1959 in Maryland. He graduated from Boston University in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography with a minor in physics. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984. It received little attention and stayed out of print until Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted in 2001. His second novel was Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller was published in 1988, but it was his novel Snow Crash (1992) that brought him popularity. It fused memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology. Neal Stephenson has won several awards: Hugo for Best Novel for The Diamond Age (1996), the Arthur C. Clark for Best Novel for…