By Phyrexian Neal Stephenson is the best-selling author of such novels as Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. He is best know for writing science fiction (in the postcyberpunk genre) and his interests often lead him into investigations of society, mathematics, crypt...

And what a plot that is. The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon (if you liked them) could be described simply as interesting things happening to interesting people, with the plot almost secondary. That's not the case here, although there are certainly interesting things happening to inter...

A disappointing collection of stories. (**). Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle · Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle 1000 pages long. The first in a trilogy. The scope of this thing makes my head hurt. ...

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an ...

By jason I’ma big fan of Neal Stephenson, author of The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon and other assorted books. A few weeks ago I picked up Anathem at the store the day it was officially released. His previous books have been rich in story, ...

 - Certainly, The Baroque Cycle has scope: The ancestors of Cryptonomicon characters cross paths with Isaac Newton and his peers against a backdrop of several ...

By Slashdot.org Smith writes "Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks — Anathem. Boing Boing has an excerpt from the amazing glossary (including a definition for 'bulshytt') so take a peek at ...

By kmw@reason.com (Katherine Mangu-Ward) To Do this weekend: See 300, the surprise blockbuster about the battle of Thermopylae based on a graphic novel of the same name. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle trilogy, reviewed the movie last week in The New York Times under the outstanding he...

 Seattle - The Diamond Age is headier than Snow Crash, though not as complex -- or long -- as Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Cycle, the latter of which is so long we've ...

subscription), TX - Jul 13, 2006 The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. The trilogy (Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World) provides a wild ride through late 17th century/early ...