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...runner-up for) the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize or any other major award. It was hailed as the Novel of the Future, and in fact it kicked off a temporary revival of the maxi-novel, books like Cryptonomicon and The Corrections and Underworld and White Teeth. For a moment there, it felt as though novels simply had to get longer and longer to encompass the world's galloping complexity and interconnectedness. Then the fad faded. Now Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (1,085 pages) just seems self-indulgent and stuntish...
Cult-classic science-fiction novel--check. Comic novel about environmentalists--check. Best-selling thriller--also check. What is there left for Neal Stephenson--author of Snow Crash, Zodiac and Cryptonomicon, among other novels--to write? The answer is The Baroque Cycle, a stunning 3,000-page trilogy about 17th century scientists that will defy any category, genre, precedent or label--except for genius. (That's right, I'm using the g-word...
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