Book description
Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller
Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a
world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil. 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 (Snowcrash,The Diamond Age) and for WWII
(Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the
Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution.
Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply
unique. Neal Stephenson is the author of five previous novels and
co-author (with Frederick George) of two more. He lives in Seattle.
