Kris’ Book Reviews

This is the first book of the Baroque Cycle, a new series by Neal Stephenson, unlike his previous works, it is not a cyberpunk novel but historical and quite a good one.First volume of this series takes place mostly in two time lines, the first is places in early 18th century Massachusetts and the second one is Daniel Waterhouse’s flashbacks into the second half of 17th century’s England. In the former part, Daniel is on his way from America to England, and in the latter author presents Daniels life beginning with studies on university and meeting Newton.

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