I can't say too much about this book on this blog, because Adam is just about to start reading it. It's an entertaining and horrifying book. The style is reminiscent of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, although it's less deliberately creaky and less self-conscious. It's also, therefore, less full of in-jokes with the reader -- creaky and self-conscious can be well used.
At first, Octavian Nothing's action is also reminiscent of Quicksilver; Anderson and Stephenson are toying with some of the same elements of early modern society, including scientific societies. It soon becomes clear, however, that while Octavian Nothing may indeed be "Neal Stephenson for young adults," it's not "Quicksilver for young adults"; its themes (liberty, slavery, betrayal) and its plot (no spoilers!) are all its own.
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