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Title	:	Anathem
Author	:	Neal Stephenson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 937 pages
Published	:	September 9th 2008 by William Morrow
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

Anathem

Neal Stephenson

Hardcover | Pages: 937 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 59131 Users | 4748 Reviews

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Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside—the Extramuros—for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.

Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates—at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected." But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.

Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros—a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose—as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world—as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.

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Original Title:	Anathem
ISBN:	0061474096 (ISBN13: 9780061474095)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem/
Characters:	Erasmas, Lio, Arsibalt, Jesry, Orolo, Tulia, Cord
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2009), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2009), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008), John W. Campbell Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009) Endeavour Award Nominee (2009)

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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)Is Neal Stephenson the most brilliant living author currently in the United States of America? Oh, wait, I can answer that for you right away: Yes. Yes he is. And that's because Stephenson can do something almost no other American writer currently putting out work can; he can take a healthy dose of

I think that Neal Stephenson is very intelligent and a terrific writer. That said, I found all the made-up googlies in this snarfle, really boinged my thnoode. Surely there is a slankier way of telling us that we are reading about another zoof than to make up every other googly. It made it very difficult to forkle the snarfle and I put it down after only 80 ziffies. This will not stop me from attempting the next Neal Stephenson snarfle, however.

Anathem: This book could be anathema to some readers Originally posted at Fantasy LiteratureAt one point do you admit defeat and give up on a book? Especially one that you really WANT to like, by an author whose work you respect, and has been lauded by critics and readers alike. Ive put off tacking Anathem for many years because: 1) its a massive door-stopper about an order of monks millennia in the future devoted to philosophy, science, and mathematic theorems; 2) its got an entirely new

Some novelists pander to their audience. Others challenge them. Neal Stephenson might be determined to make his audience feel stupid, in the nicest possible way.The American novelist has long been considered one of the great madmen of science fiction, a towering intellect who synthesizes technical mumbo-jumbo and a Monty-Pythonesque capacity for silliness into daunting tomes as entertaining as they are impenetrable. Stephenson mashes up genres with the flair of Thomas Pynchon and the intellect

Q:Do your neighbors burn one another alive? was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec ...Do your shamans walk around on stilts? ...Do you fancy you will see your dead dogs and cats in some sort of afterlife? (c)Q: Orolo had asked me along to serve as amanuensis. It was an impressive word, so Id said yes. (c)Q:My talent for envisioning things, and spinning yarns in my head, failed me that evening, as if it had gone on vacation. I could make no sense of my interview with

Reviewing a 1,000-page book thats part alternate history, part close encounters of the third kind, part futuristic sci-fi utopian fantasy, and part philosophical treatise is like trying to milk a camel while sitting in quicksand. Incidentally, if youve never tried that, I dont recommend ityou end up getting both milk and sand in some pretty weird places. Also, its worth noting that, as a general rule, male camels dont particularly enjoy being milked and have a tendency to make their displeasure

I have been reading this book for 17 days, when you have lived with a single book this long there is inevitably separation pain, now that I have finished it I feel like I just woke up from a long weird dream. I had a lot of trepidation about reading this book, the reviews and comments from fellow sf readers (hello PrintSF dudes!) are generally positive but I gathered from them that this is a long hard one (ooh-er!) which is bit intimidating given my very average intelligence. Still, I am