By James Callan 2) On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, and The Long Winter 3) Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso 4) The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz 5) Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World

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 ...

In style if not substance, the book represents something of a departure from Stephenson's earlier novels, which include Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and the three volumes of the Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, ...

By Erika But of course, you can’t really understand the Baroque Cycle without having read Cryptonomicon. So the correct reading order is:. 1. Cryptonomicon 2. Quicksilver 3. The Confusion 4. The System of the World 5. Cryptonomicon ...

By Brandon Keim Cyberpunk pioneer turned history junky Neal Stephenson described the manufacture of wootz steel in The Confusion, the second volume of his frustrating, exhilirating and historical awe-inspiring Baroque Cycle. As luck would have it, ...

Befejeztem Neal Stephenson The Confusion című könyvét. A triológia előző részéről (Quicksilver) korábban írtam itt. Hasonlót tudok mondani most is, azaz a könyv egy 21. századi korhatár nélküli Dumas regény. A 17. század végének olyan ...

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 ...

By Joey deVilla The Confusion by Neal Stephenson (continuing the Baroque Cycle, which started with Quicksilver, which I got for free); Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (Never got around to reading it, no idea why) ...