The System of the World (Stephenson novel)

Where I heard about it

• The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Fantasy section, where the Baroque Cycle is carded as one entry and praised as seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe rendered “at the heart of scientific discovery.”

About this edition

Volume three of three: volume one is Quicksilver, volume two The Confusion. The title is borrowed from Book III of Newton’s Principia.

Connections

• a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from; Fantasy section, Baroque Cycle entry.
• The Baroque Cycle — the series card.
• Quicksilver — volume one.
• The Confusion — volume two.
• Neal Stephenson — the author.
• Isaac Newton — Master of the Mint here, and the source of the title.
• Republic of Letters — the scientific milieu the trilogy runs through.
• Historical Fiction — the genre.
• Cryptonomicon — the later Stephenson novel that shares the cycle’s family lines.
• Snow Crash — the Stephenson book Kyle has already read.
• a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates the list.