Neal Stephenson's Baroque cycle

[Kevlarhead]

Am I lone nerdy voice in loving these books, and wanting to re-read them over and over, and encouraging other people to read them if possible?

Or are there other people out there who've ploughed through all 2500-3000 pages and liked them all?

I've not heard of them, what are they about? Always keen to find different books to read, especially ones people love

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I've read several of his books and really like them. I'm not sure if any of them were part of the Baroque cycle.

God I love his stuff! Cryptonomicon is just a mega novel (re-read it recently) and these are wonderful too (must re-read....)

go on someone give the uninitiated a taste of what they are like.....

yeah, go on, tell us what they're about

I loved these.

They're complicated ... all about some lively adventures in the 17th century. Some bits are SFish or fantasyish, but not all of it ...

I love Neal Stephenson but still only 2 third through Quicksilver after a couple of years... perfect bedtime reading though not exactly fast paced... hmm maybe I should get off the computer and pick it up again...

It's a bit complicated...

It's eight books in 3 volumes, Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World, and the storyline is (mostly) played out in England and Europe of the 17th/18th centuries. There're three central characters and a whole host of supporting people, some of whom are entirely fictional, and others are real people like Isaac Newtom, Liebniz, Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke. It's set around the blossoming of creativity and expansion in the fields of maths & physics that occured at that time.

I'll copy some quotes when I've got the actual books to hand...

sounds interesting so far...thanks

Are they anything like Mary Gentle's writing? Her work is complex and fascinating, other-worldly. Rather, the world as it might have been.

I like them very much. I'm on amazon and gooogling NS.

I love finding new authors with lots of books to wade through, Thank you.EM

What's the first book in the series?

Quicksilver