Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Customer reviews. out of 5 stars /5(). THE CONFUSION. An unexpected byproduct of CRYPTONOMICON that ended up taking over my life for a number of years. As I was finishing CRYPTONOMICON, I had two chance conversations with old friends. One was with George Dyson, author of DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES, in which he talks about the deep roots of computing in the work of Leibniz at the dawn. · Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington/5.
The Confusion is packed with characters, and if Stephenson lacks the dynamic range of a lot of authors, he makes up for it with a rogue's gallery of personality quirks and bizarre motives that at times had me laughing out-loud. Eliza goes from being a character it seemed like Stephenson didn't know how to write to one of the strongest. Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers. Read "The Confusion Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson available from Rakuten Kobo. In the year , a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Co.
THE CONFUSION. An unexpected byproduct of CRYPTONOMICON that ended up taking over my life for a number of years. As I was finishing CRYPTONOMICON, I had two chance conversations with old friends. One was with George Dyson, author of DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES, in which he talks about the deep roots of computing in the work of Leibniz at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. The Confusion, the second plus-page instalment of The Baroque Cycle, is a heap of a novel. Or, as the author would have it, a con-fusion of two. Instead of the tripartite presentation found in Quicksilver, Stephenson here alternately offers sections -- large chunks at a time -- from two novels, Bonanza and Juncto. The action in each covers the period from to , but the two story-lines advance largely independently of each other (until a bit of overlap at the end), and so this. The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle and consists of two sections or books, Bonanza and The Juncto. In , The Confusion won the Locus Award, together with The System of the World, also by Stephenson.
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