Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th & 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious & political turmoil. With a cast of characters that
Includes:: Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell & the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place & time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (Snowcrash, The Diamond Age) & for WWII (Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War & the Europe of the Wars of Religion & the Scientific Revolution. Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique.