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Friday, September 12th
NEAL STEPHENSON signs
Anathem
(William Morrow, $29.95)
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Of these 900-plus pages, Publishers Weekly said: "In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (Cryptonomicon) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematicians -- a religious order unto themselves -- have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world... Stephenson's expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller's classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations of Douglas Hofstadter... An accompanying CD of music composed by David Stutz is suitably ethereal." And Kirkus concluded: "...[a] logophilic treat for those who like their alternate worlds big, parodic and ironic." | |
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