Quicksilver

I am shelving this as “historical fiction,” but Quicksilver oddly satisfies me in the same way an epic fantasy or science fiction book would. It took me out of myself and enchanted me.

I appreciate Stephenson's ability to put the reader into the word of long ago without making it feel strained and pretentious, either with archaisms or painful modernisms. The anachronistic touches did not feel out of place, but rather like a “dynamic equivalence” translation from one language into another.