The Baroque Cycle
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The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels by American writer Neal Stephenson. It was published in three volumes containing 8 books in 2003 and 2004. The story follows the adventures of a sizeable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe. Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, due to the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology. The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series.
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Historical figures who appear as characters
- Caroline of Ansbach
- Jean Bart
- Catherine Barton
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Robert Boyle
- Charles II of England
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- D'Artagnan
- Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
- John Flamsteed
- Benjamin Franklin (as a young boy)
- Eleanor Erdmuthe Louise, widow of John Frederick
- George I of Great Britain
- George II of Great Britain, the Prince of Wales
- Mother Goose
- George Frideric Handel
- Robert Hooke
- Christiaan Huygens
- James Stuart, James II and the Duke of York
- George Jeffreys
- Johann Georg IV, Elector of Saxony
- Jack Ketch
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Louis XIV of France
- Thomas Newcomen
- Isaac Newton
- Henry Oldenburg
- William Penn
- Samuel Pepys
- Peter the Great traveling incognito as Peter Romanov
- Bonaventure Rossignol, a French cryptanalyst
- James Scott, Duke of Monmouth
- John III Sobieski, King of Poland
- Solomon (anachronistic), traveling incognito as Solomon Kohan
- Sophia of Hanover
- Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
- Edward "Blackbeard" Teach
- Elizabeth Villiers
- John Wilkins
- William III of England, Prince of Orange
- Christopher Wren
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