QUICKSILVER
by Neal Stephenson
Swashbuckling pirates with candles in their beards, a smart and beautiful young woman liberated from slavery, kinky sex, sword fights, double-dealing...and a stirring account of how rational scientific thought was born. All told with a sense of humor. Very cool. And you can follow Eliza, Daniel Waterhouse, and ''Half-Cocked Jack'' Shaftoe through two more fat volumes in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Lucky you.
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