👍 liked this book because...
I found the protagonist to be an admirable character, and (since apparently we have the potential of a series here) I'm interested to find out what happens next. The author brings the scientific and technological advances of the time alive by putting us in the shoes of those who observed them, and also illustrates the influence that individuals can have on what we'd usually consider "larger than life" movements. Finally, I'm a big fan of Stephenson's slightly irreverent and always engaging writing style.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Leningrad by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora.
She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths…
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