Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle No. 1)

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

• The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
• The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
• King of the Vagabonds: The Baroque Cycle #2
• Seveneves
• Anathem
• Snow Crash
• Odalisque: The Baroque Cycle #3 (The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver)
• Cryptonomicon
• Reamde: A Novel
• Cryptonomicon