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title: 'Actual Book News Contained Herein'
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date: '2003-06-27T10:47:32-04:00'
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permalink: /actual-book-news-contained-herein/
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- novels
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Neal Stephenson, author of the riotous [Snow Crash](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380958/plannedobsole-20), the [envy-inspiring](/po/archive/000039.php) [The Diamond Age](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380966/plannedobsole-20), and the at times breathtaking [Cryptonomicon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060512806/plannedobsole-20) is returning to the Waterhouse and Shaftoe families for a bit of a prequel. On September 23, 2003, [Quicksilver](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380977427/plannedobsole-20) hits the bookstores.
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A few things to note from that last link: *Quicksilver* will apparently run 944 pages, thus exceeding the heft of *Cryptonomicon* by a full 26 pages. More importantly, however, *Quicksilver* is billed as “volume 1” of [the Baroque Cycle](http://www.baroquecycle.com). Rumor has it said cycle will extend to three volumes.
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Which makes it seem possible that, by the time all’s written and printed, the saga of the Waterhouse and Shaftoe clans — and the interconnected history of post-Enlightenment technologies — could run to nearly 4000 pages. Move over, Michener.
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