Who have flirted with the mainstream and found it to their liking, has Has always been very proud of the SF label, and unlike other SF writers Think of Stephenson's most recent work as SF at all. I think that when The BaroqueĬycle is completed, we will be looking at a significant event inĪ number of people have cast doubt on whether or not to It politely, as tedious as watching grass grow. I also found it to possess passages that were, to put Some of the finest literary showmanship it has been my pleasure to read mass-market paperback release, which was split into three volumes.) (However, the book will be much easier for readers to digest in its U.S. Often can't not be self-indulgent) reading experience, Theīaroque Cycle will prove to be entertaining and rewarding in direct Of an unabashedly self-indulgent (a writer of Stephenson's brilliance For readers not frightened off by the challenge Pages, but then, those people are also avoiding Greg Egan, Iain M. I think about four-fifths of SF fandom would probably throw up their handsĪnd give up after the first 100 or so (of just over 900) of Quicksilver's Matter of its unwillingness to follow anything like a traditional plot. Often encyclopedic attention to detail, its talkiness, and the little A number of readers have been alienated by its This is a daunting, intimidating, demanding book. Pepys, and more, all of whom in Stephenson's hands become living,īreathing, remarkable men, not merely the kinds of stuffy icons so often

Pen - dramatizing, among many other things, nothing less than the Stephenson, astonishingly enough, in longhand with a fountain Is the first volume in a monumental historical saga - written by This man of ideas has tackled some of the biggest ones in history. And with The Baroque Cycle,Ī trilogy that has thematic ties to his 1999 Hugo nominee Cryptonomicon, The force of a volcano's pyroclastic flow. Neal Stephenson is a writer from whom ideas erupt with

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