From: apwBLAH@dolio.lh.net   
      
   Has anyone here read QUICKSILVER by Neal Stephenson?  I just picked up a copy   
   and am interested in opinions of Stephenson fans toward the book.  I have   
   read a couple of online reviews and they make it out to be a nearly complete   
   departure from the cyberpunk genre.  It is described as a meandering historical   
   fiction, and unlike CRYPTONOMICON, which flips between the past and the   
   contemporary, QUICKSILVER is set entirely in the 17th century.   
      
   I am wondering if it has a Steampunk feel to it, despite that it takes place   
   well before the age of steam.  Perhaps we'll have to coin of a new   
   literary category.   
      
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   -apw   
      
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