A novel of formidable scope and almost imposing erudition...Stephenson is a writer of staggering gifts - a huge ensemble cast immaculately sustained, a wellspring of fertile ideas and the whole thing delivered with enough wit to make a novel the weight of a flagstone readable.

The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England,where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to assassinate Natural Philosophers. As

Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England’s Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences...

Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson’s hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius,discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.

Many think Cryptonomicon Stephenson’s best book. The System of the World is better.

A novel of formidable scope and almost imposing erudition...Stephenson is a writer of staggering gifts - a huge ensemble cast immaculately sustained, a wellspring of fertile ideas and the whole thing delivered with enough wit to make a novel the weight of a flagstone readable.

BOOK SIX

Sdomon’s Gold

BOOK SEVEN

Cunrency

BOOK EIGHT

The System of the World

EPILOGS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS