While this isn't in the same league as the Baroque Cycle or Cryptonomicon, this novel of weird pseudo-Victoriana smooshed together with a kind of twisted Imperial China in a future with nanotechnology is still well worth reading. Opinions in my book group were mixed - most of us liked it, a couple loved it, and a couple more really weren't big fan - but then that's usually the way with any novel and a group of readers. I'd say read it.
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Great early Neal Stephenson book.
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