Systém světa – Stephenson Neal (2025)

It is the year 1714. Daniel Waterhouse, a natural philosopher who was present at all the important moments when the sciences as we know them today were born, returns to his native England from the colony in Massachusetts at the urgent request from high places, only to find that nothing is as it once was. The ailing Queen Anne, the last Stuart, lies on her deathbed and her succession is far from clear; political and religious disputes continue to smolder, the influence of the Royal Society is waning as Isaac Newton delves deeper into alchemy, driven by a desire for the mysterious gold of Solomon, the new English currency is threatened by the counterfeiter Jack Razič, the infamous Jack Shaftoe, king of the vagabonds, and from across the Channel, the perhaps immortal Sun King watches it all with a sly grin. Daniel would prefer to be merely an observer of events, but the hellish machines and other schemes that someone sets in his path force him to plunge into the winding streets of London to untangle the threads and discover who is behind it all. Change is indeed in the air and too much is at stake. Neal Stephenson presents in The System of the World, the final part of the Baroque Cycle trilogy, which won the 2005 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, a unique portrait of the time when the old...