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Inspired by Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon. This site acts as an introductory guide to both cryptography and the works of Neal Stephenson. News
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Baroque Cycle is go - 2 October 2003 |
Quicksilver volume I of The Baroque Cycle is finally published in the UK.
See Amazon.co.uk |
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Two new websites - 24 September 2003 |
| Two new Stephenson related websites are launched to tie in with the publication of Quicksilver. The first is http://www.nealstephenson.com, produced by his publisher Harper Collins it is a standard site with biography, news, details of his novels and more. The second website is a far more ambitious affair. The MetaWeb is firstly a wiki (see The Wikipedia) of annotations of Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver and secondly a collaborative structure for learning. |
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Baroque Cycle is go - 23 September 2003 |
Quicksilver volume I of The Baroque Cycle is finally published in the US.
See Amazon.com |
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Stephenson gets Wired - 26 August 2003 |
| Wired magazine's favourite author gives an interview in their September issue. Some interesting background on the upcoming epic and 17th Century Hackers. It is available online here. The issue is worth buying as some the content is vaguely Stephenson-related, features on making diamonds and hunting for gold in shipwrecks. |
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Enlightenment - 20 August 2003 |
| The Confusion: Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle is listed at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for pre-ordering. It will be published April 04, 2004 (Amazon.com lists publication date as January 2004.) |
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The Confused - 12 August 2003 |
| New information on The Baroque Cycle at Kevin's Blog. The titles and publishing dates for all three voulmes of the trilogy are below.
* Book One: QuickSilver - to be released on September 23, 2003.
* Book Two: The Confusion - to be released on April 04, 2004.
* Book Three: The System of the World - to be released on October 04, 2004.
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Baroque Cycle update - 19 July 2003 |
| The Baroque Cycle website has been updated and now includes a message from Neal Stephenson describing the background to the inscription on the splash page and the codebreaking contest which was won by Todd Garrison, see below. |
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The code is cracked - 30 June 2003 |
| The splash page of http://www.baroquecycle.com contained an image of a piece of parchment with strange symbols upon it. It occurred to me that this was some sort of secret message waiting to be cracked. After a few initial attempts I gave up, but someone with more persistance was Todd Garrison. His account of how he cracked the code is quite interesting and can be read at his website. |
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The Baroque Cycle is about to begin... - 9 May 2003 |
| Quicksilver is to be the first installment in a grand multi-volume epic named The Baroque Cycle and comes with a website, see http://www.baroquecycle.com.
The website features a splash page with strange alchemical writing, a photo of Stephenson with a short bio and most exciting an excerpt from the novel. The excerpt intriguingly features a character named Enoch Root in 18th century Boston. The novel is set in the early 18th century and follows the exploits of Daniel Waterhouse, Jack Shaftoe and a young woman named Eliza.
Somewhat confused as I thought Cryptonomicon was to be part of the promised trilogy. However the title 'The Baroque Cycle' suggests that the trilogy is to be a multi-volume prequel to Cryptonomicon featuring the ancestors of the characters from that novel. |
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Quicksilver at Amazon - 4 January 2003 |
| Neal Stephenson's new novel Quicksilver is listed at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk for pre-ordering. Not many details but it is to be a prequel to Cryptonomicon part of a trilogy about cryptography and is being handwritten with a quill apparently. |
