The System of the World picks up 15 years after events from The Confusion. Turning a few fictional characters loose to mingle with the historically accurate - Newton, Leibniz, Handel, and Locke among them - in Europe around the turn of the 18th century, the Baroque era is by far a more challenging arena for a sci-fi writer to create, and one, which Stephenson presents, is key to understanding our current scientific and economic paradigms. In writing the Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson instead went for the sci-fi jugular.
A large portion of science fiction writers attack from typical angles - alien species, spaceships, laser battles, and so forth the name of the game.
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