OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO, Neal Stephenson has produced a minor miracle: not one, but three bestselling nine-hundred-page novels, all focused on obscure topics of cryptography, monetary theory, and ...
I just finished The System of the World, book 3 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I've been a big fan of him since I read Snow Crash way back in 7th grade but this trilogy bumped him up into a ...
Q uicksilver Volume 1 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 944 pp., $27.95 THE QUICKEST ROAD to bestsellerdom for a novelist today is to raise Very Big Questions–and then not answer ...
Six months after The Confusion, Neal Stephenson’s inexhaustible cannon has fired the third and final brick-like volume of his Baroque Cycle, a science-fiction epic whose science happens to be the ...