Books I'm getting
Hum... okay, I ordered some books form the on Amazon the other so woohoo. Heh, it's actually been quite a while since I last bought a book, and that one ended up taking me endless months to finish. Hopefully I'll be able to get through these ones in a couple weeks. meow. So what did I get? Well, I had just finished reading the first book of the repackaged version of Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver". So that had whetted my appetite a bit and I decided to get the original version and the other books in his "Baroque Cycle".
From wikipedia:The story follows the adventures of a cast of characters who find themselves amidst some of the central events of late 17th and early 18th centuries Europe. Despite its historical fiction nature, the author characterises the work as science fiction due to the presence of a few anomalous occurrences and its focus on science and technology.[1] The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series.
Quicksilver takes place mainly in the years between the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England (1660) and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
The Confusion follows Quicksilver without temporal interruption, but ranges geographically from Europe and the Mediterranean through India to Manila, Japan, and Mexico.
The System of the World takes place principally in London in 1714, about 10 years after the events of The Confusion.
The books feature considerable sections concerning alchemy, with protagonists including Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and sundry other Europeans of note during late 17th and early 18th centuries. The principal Alchemist of the tale is the mysterious Enoch Root who, along with the descendants of several characters in this series, is also featured in the contemporary novel Cryptonomicon.
Cool beans, seems like they should be a fun read.
Quicksilver:
(amazon.com)
The Confusion:
(amazon.com)
The System of the World:
(amazon.com)
Oh yeah, I also got this book on a whim. I was reading some economics blog and it came up?:
(amazon.com)(wikipedia) Uh... should be fun too? ^_^
From wikipedia:The story follows the adventures of a cast of characters who find themselves amidst some of the central events of late 17th and early 18th centuries Europe. Despite its historical fiction nature, the author characterises the work as science fiction due to the presence of a few anomalous occurrences and its focus on science and technology.[1] The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series.
Quicksilver takes place mainly in the years between the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England (1660) and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
The Confusion follows Quicksilver without temporal interruption, but ranges geographically from Europe and the Mediterranean through India to Manila, Japan, and Mexico.
The System of the World takes place principally in London in 1714, about 10 years after the events of The Confusion.
The books feature considerable sections concerning alchemy, with protagonists including Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and sundry other Europeans of note during late 17th and early 18th centuries. The principal Alchemist of the tale is the mysterious Enoch Root who, along with the descendants of several characters in this series, is also featured in the contemporary novel Cryptonomicon.
Cool beans, seems like they should be a fun read.
Quicksilver:
(amazon.com)
The Confusion:
(amazon.com)
The System of the World:
(amazon.com)
Oh yeah, I also got this book on a whim. I was reading some economics blog and it came up?:
(amazon.com)(wikipedia) Uh... should be fun too? ^_^