![]() The loquacious Daniel Waterhouse is still serving England as a member of the Royal Society, and the bulk of this last installment follows his attempts to stop a plot threatening the lives of his fellow scientists with a nefarious invention: the time bomb. ![]() We’re in the early 1700s now, and the characters are a bit older ( Quicksilver started in the 1640s) but no less active, physically or mentally. ![]() Another thing is that it’s a hell of a way to finish things off. 107) is that the author was right to say the work wasn’t a trilogy, but just one long (nearly 3,000-page) novel. One thing that becomes obvious on reading this third and final volume in Stephenson’s genre-defying historical reinvention ( Quicksilver, 2003 The Confusion, p. ![]() The Baroque Cycle crosses the finish line: somewhat winded but still spry. ![]()
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