The System of the World: 3 (Baroque Cycle) - Hardcover

Stephenson, Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060523875 ISBN 13: 9780060523879

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2004

Synopsis

In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group headed by counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, who uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers. By the author of Cryptonomicon. 250,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Neal Stephenson has saved the best until last with The System of the World, a fittingly breathtaking conclusion to his Baroque Cycle, implausibly trumping all of the trilogy's previous strengths, but unfortunately introducing one weakness in that the whole rambunctiously magnificent undertaking had to end" (Christopher Brookmyre Glasgow Herald)

"Truly remarkable" (LA Times)

"Historical fiction was never this much fun - or this successful" (Entertainment Weekly)

From the Publisher:

Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060523875
• ISBN 13: 9780060523879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 892