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Beschreibung

An endlessly rich and inventive historical fiction epic from the author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, set amid the political intrigue, scientific revolution and religious conflict of 17th-century Europe. As philosophers, adventurers and spies navigate a rapidly changing world, fortunes are made and empires reshaped.

'Genius ... You'll wish it were longer.' Time magazine

'An astonishing achievement.' Sunday Telegraph

WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD


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Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, moves among the era's greatest minds, as new ideas challenge old certainties, and where the world can be changed overnight.

The adventurer 'Half-Cocked Jack' escapes the streets of London and pursues fortune and infamy while the pox slowly tightens its grip.

And Eliza, rescued from a Turkish harem, reinvents herself as a spy, financier and pawn of the powerful, as the age of finance is born.

'Neal Stephenson rewrites history - for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.' Wired

The first book in the Baroque Cycle.

An endlessly rich and inventive historical fiction epic from the author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, set amid the political intrigue, scientific revolution and religious conflict of 17th-century Europe. As philosophers, adventurers and spies navigate a rapidly changing world, fortunes are made and empires reshaped.

'Genius ... You'll wish it were longer.' Time magazine

'An astonishing achievement.' Sunday Telegraph

WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD


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Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, moves among the era's greatest minds, as new ideas challenge old certainties, and where the world can be changed overnight.

The adventurer 'Half-Cocked Jack' escapes the streets of London and pursues fortune and infamy while the pox slowly tightens its grip.

And Eliza, rescued from a Turkish harem, reinvents herself as a spy, financier and pawn of the powerful, as the age of finance is born.

'Neal Stephenson rewrites history - for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.' Wired

The first book in the Baroque Cycle.

Über den Autor
Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 927 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099410683
ISBN-10: 0099410680
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 540694
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stephenson, Neal
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Arrow Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 130 x 53 mm
Von/Mit: Neal Stephenson
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2004
Gewicht: 0,672 kg
Artikel-ID: 102486968