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Newton's Cannon: Book One of THE AGE OF UNREASON (The Age of Unreason, Book 1)

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Newton's Cannon: Book One of THE AGE OF UNREASON (The Age of Unreason, Book 1)
J. Gregory Keyes
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0345433785
Release Date: 1999-03-29

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Newton's Cannon is an alternate history set primarily in the court of Louis XIV. This might sound familiar to readers of Vonda McIntyre's Nebula-winning The Moon and the Sun. Keyes, like McIntyre, blends alchemy, history, and fantasy in his novel.

Keyes's characters are expertly drawn: Louis XIV, the aging King of France who seeks a return to international preeminence, young Ben Franklin of Boston, a printer's apprentice who yearns to master alchemy, and Adrienne de Montchevreuil, a lovely, impoverished noblewoman who secretly pursues mathematics, but attracts Louis's lustful attention. The many secondary characters are also believable personalities, and the plot is original and suspenseful. Keyes's writing is precise and witty. "It was, Adrienne reflected, impossible not to be impressed by the Grand Canal. More like a cruciform inland sea with banks of polished marble, it summed up many things about Versailles. It was monumental in proportion, insanely expensive, impossible to overlook, and entirely frivolous."

Though the ending of Newton's Cannon leaves much unresolved--setting up book two of The Age of Unreason, A Calculus of Angels--it's fine entertainment all by itself. --Nona Vero

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A dazzling quest whose outcome will raise humanity to unparalleled heights of glory--or ring down a curtain of endless night . . .

1681: When Sir Isaac Newton turns his restless mind to the ancient art of alchemy, he unleashes Philosopher's Mercury, a primal source of matter and a key to manipulating the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Now, as France and England battle for its control, Louis XIV calls for a new weapon--a mysterious device known only as Newton's Cannon.

Half a world away, a young apprentice named Benjamin Franklin stumbles across a dangerous secret. Pursued by a deadly enemy--half scientist, half sorcerer--Ben makes his fugitive way to England. Only Newton himself can help him now. But who will help Sir Isaac? For he was not the first to unleash the Philosopher's Mercury. Others were there before him. Creatures as scornful of science as they are of mankind. And burning to be rid of both . . .

Newton's Cannon (Age of Unreason Quartet 1)

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Newton's Cannon (Age of Unreason Quartet 1)
Greg Keyes
Manufacturer: Tor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0330419978

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NEWTON'S CANNON (AGE OF UNREASON, NO 1)
J. GREGORY KEYES
Manufacturer: Del Rey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M6D5O0

NEWTON'S CANNON - The Age of Unreason Book (1) One

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NEWTON'S CANNON - The Age of Unreason Book (1) One
J. Gregory Keyes
Manufacturer: Del Rey - Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NRV7NY

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