The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels set in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, written by the award winning author Neal Stephenson.
Best classed as speculative fiction, The Baroque Cycle is a set of 3 volumes, each with a number of novels printed together, as such the series could be considered to be 8 books in length.
The series uses a number of historical figures including Isaac Asimov, Sophia Hanover and William of Orange (no not the mobile company, it was a principality of southern France) and travels through the Early modern Europe.
reviews in the series
The System of the World
by Neal Stephenson
The System of the World is the third and final volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
In 1714 Daniel Waterhouse arbitrates the irrational dispute between the aging mathematical giants Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, both angrily insisting they invented the calcu...
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
Quicksilver is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.
The thing about Neal Stephenson is that he usually presents something new and fantastic that runs as the core of his books. Diamond Age has the Primer, Cryptonomicon has the economics of virtual money (or cryp...
