Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:69:well-trimmed ship (Neal Stephenson)
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Now that we are on board a ship with Daniel, it's as good a place as any to mention that this is not a Ship Novel. I was tempted to make it one, but bated because I knew at some level that to plunge into that lore would make the book twice as long even as it already was. Instead I have tried to put in enough Ship stuff that the novel will hold water, as it were, but left detailed Ship content to the many excellent novelists who specialize in that sort of thing.