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Violence
Some
Period violence including wars and executions; historical brutality depicted
Language
Barely any
Moderate adult language; Stephenson's distinctive prose style
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships in period context; some content
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking and period substances throughout
Emotional Intensity
Some
The intellectual weight of a world in the process of reinventing itself
What this book is about
The first volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is a massive historical novel set in late 17th-century Europe, following the intellectual revolution of the Royal Society while tracking characters across England, Europe, and the New World. Dense, funny, and enormously ambitious.
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