In fiction, the novel "Now, Voyager" (1941, by Olive Higgins Prouty) features a key character, Jeremiah Duvaux Durrance, who studied architecture at MIT. The novel "The Gadget Maker" (1955, by Maxwell Griffith) traces the life of aeronautical engineer Stanley Brack, who performs his undergraduate studies at MIT. Ben Bova's novel "The Weathermakers" (1966) about scientists developing methods to prevent hurricanes from reaching land, is also set in part at MIT. Patricia Vasquez visits (or comes from) MIT in Greg Bear's "Eon" (1985). Neal Stephenson hints at MIT in "Quicksilver" (2004), and other books of "The Baroque Cycle", by having Daniel Waterhouse found the "Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of the Technologickal Arts" in the 18th century.