The results were all too often difficult to interpret, so I scrawled "Con" on the bottle before "Fusion". But of course that was the original meaning of the word "Confusion": simply "melting together" - the sort of insight you keep on getting from Neal Stephenson, and he does a lot of melting together in this volume/5(). · Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington/5. The Confusion, the second plus-page instalment of The Baroque Cycle, is a heap of a novel. Or, as the author would have it, a con-fusion of two. Instead of the tripartite presentation found in Quicksilver, Stephenson here alternately offers sections -- large chunks at a time -- from two novels, Bonanza and Juncto. The action in each covers the period from to , but the two story-lines advance Author: Neal Stephenson.
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson pp, Heinemann, £ Five years ago, Neal Stephenson published Cryptonomicon, a novel of such ambition and intensity that most modern fiction looks timid. The Confusion: Neal Stephenson: Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington. show more [Stephenson, Neal] The. The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Stephenson, Neal and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
THE CONFUSION con-currently conquers the following subjects (among many, many others): the dawn of a truly global economy - the pre-teen years of the commodities futures markets - the minting of hard currency - the injection of fiat - the role of the New World in revitalizing and further confusing international relations - the pioneering minds of the Utilitarian Enlightenment (not of the artistic sort that has come to dominate discussions of the Enlightenment). - the conflicting motives. THE CONFUSION. An unexpected byproduct of CRYPTONOMICON that ended up taking over my life for a number of years. As I was finishing CRYPTONOMICON, I had two chance conversations with old friends. One was with George Dyson, author of DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES, in which he talks about the deep roots of computing in the work of Leibniz at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle and consists of two sections or books, Bonanza and The Juncto. In , The Confusion won the Locus Award, together with The System of the World, also by Stephenson.
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