The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World

by Neal Stephenson

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Get all three novels in Neal Stephenson's New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle" in one e-book, including: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. This three-volume historical epic delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century.

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themulhern Newton and Leibniz are important characters in the series and Stephenson had completed it not so long before he wrote his essay for this collection.

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Ez a gyűjtemény 3 kötetet tartalmaz: Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World. Az első kötet (Quicksilver) 3 könyvből áll: Quicksilver (igen, újra), King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque. Na ebből én az első könyvnek sem értem a végére.

Egy alternatív történelmi regény szerintem akkor jó, ha nagyon eltér a valóságtól (győznek a nácik: Dick Az ember a Fellegvárban, dinoszauruszok értelmes lényekké fejlődnek: Harry Harrison: Édentől nyugatra). De itt igazából itt a változás sokkal kisebbnek tűnt, ráadásul valódi híres emberek is szerepeltek vagyis végig attól tartottam, össze fog keveredni a fejemben az igazi és az alternatív valóság. Ráadásul az eltérés az alkímia volt, ami show more megint nem tette szimpatikusabbá a dolgot.

Lehetett volna ettől még érdekes a történet, de nagyon lassan haladt, és nem jöttem rá, hogy hová. Értem én, hogy nem kell kapkodni, több mint 4000 oldal a gyűjtemény, de kb. 200 oldal után abbahagytam.
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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 show more 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. Clarke for Best Novel for Quicksilver (2004), and the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for The System of the World (2005). He recently completed the The Baroque Cycle Trilogy, a series of historical novels. It consists of eight books and was originally published in three volumes and Reamde. His latest novel is entitled The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O. Stephenson also writes under the pseudonym Stephen Bury. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World
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2014

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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