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Country United States Series The Baroque Cycle Publication date September 21, 2004 Genre Historical Fiction | 4.3/5 Goodreads Language English Publisher William Morrow Originally published 21 September 2004 Preceded by The Confusion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Followed by The Confusion, Part I: The Baroque Cycle #4 Characters Jack Shaftoe, Enoch Root, Isaac Newton, Eliza, Daniel Waterhouse Similar Works by Neal Stephenson, Prometheus Award for Best Novel winners, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and is the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.
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- Other characters
- Historical figures who appear as characters in the novel
- Editions
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The System of the World won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Prometheus Award in 2005, as well as a receiving a nomination for the Arthur C. Clarke Award the same year.
Style
The System of the World emulates many different literary styles. As one reviewer put it: it "is a con-fusion ... of historical novel, roman à thèse, epistolary novel, roman à clef, nouveau roman, satirical novel, roman fleuve, et cetera, et cetera, all bound up in the unlikely guise of epic science-fiction page-turner."
Main characters
Other characters
Historical figures who appear as characters in the novel
Editions
References
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