Quicksilver
2003 • 456 pages

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The Baroque Cycle, Book 1 of 8

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.


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Also contained in [Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38495W/Quicksilver)


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The Baroque Cycle (8 volume) is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Neal Stephenson.


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