Get prepared to do a lot of Wikipedia-ing. * You need a basic familiarity with the history of the 1660s and 70s and with the aforementioned scientific figures. Some people won't be able to deal with that. You will get an amazing sense of the texture and atmosphere of the era. Don't get me wrong,it's amazing writing and you will learn so much. Oh, and there's some stuff about piracy in Massachusetts. All that happens is that a guy called Daniel wanders around London in the 1660s and 70s and chats with the leading scientific figures of the age. To enjoy "Quicksilver", you need three things: * You need to be content with the fact that there's no plot. It is very rewarding though, if you know what you're getting into. "Quicksilver" is hard work, and is best thought of as an extended atmosphere-builder rather than a story. It's unfortunate that "Quicksilver" will turn so many listeners off the Baroque Cycle, because the other volumes are much more fun. Each volume includes an exclusive introduction read by the author. It is a gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive historical epic populated by the likes of Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive literary characters in modern fiction.Īudible’s complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Cycle was produced in cooperation with Neal Stephenson. The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson’s award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. In this first volume of Neal Stephenson’s genre-defying epic, 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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