Sorry, this is not a post proclaiming a political theory of everything. It’s a note saying “‘Tis done!” I picked up Neal Stephenson’s The System of the World sooner than I thought and finished it up right quick. Previous posts on the Baroque Cycle are here, here, here and here. The argument of the trilogy …
November 24, 2005 archive
Nov 24 2005
The System of the World
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Review, Science Fiction
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November 24, 2005
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