I swear I didn't concurrently read these two books on-purpose
I'm currently in the middle of reading Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson, and Connections, by James Burke.
The parallels are uncanny. And it's really spooky to read in Quicksilver a casual reference to developments in 17th century shipping or finance that I had just read about in Connections.
It's like Stephenson mined Burke for his background research, at least for the specific spans of time for which he's telling his story.
The parallels are uncanny. And it's really spooky to read in Quicksilver a casual reference to developments in 17th century shipping or finance that I had just read about in Connections.
It's like Stephenson mined Burke for his background research, at least for the specific spans of time for which he's telling his story.