The Baroque Cycle: 3,000-page trilogy by Neal Stephenson

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Isaac Newton, Action Hero
By LEV GROSSMAN
 
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003
Cult-classic science-fiction novel — check. Comic
novel about environmentalists — check. Best-selling
thriller — also check. What is there left for Neal
Stephenson — author of Snow Crash, Zodiac and
Cryptonomicon, among other novels — to write? The
answer is The Baroque Cycle, a stunning 3,000-page
trilogy about 17th century scientists that will defy
any category, genre, precedent or label — except for
genius. (That's right, I'm using the g-word.)

The Baroque Cycle is so huge that it's being released
in six-month intervals, Matrix-style: Quicksilver
drops in September, The Confusion in April 2004 and
The System of the World in October 2004. But you'll
wish it were longer. Its scope is galactically vast
and encompasses the lives of noblemen, vagabonds and,
above all, thinkers. Amid the still smoking aftermath
of the Fire of London, the likes of Isaac Newton and
Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying
the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by
equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift:
he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny,
heartbreaking and thrilling. In The Baroque Cycle, he
proves on an epic scale that the key to knowing what's
next is understanding what has come before.

<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030908-480267,00.html>

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