Anathem

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Harper Collins, Oct 6, 2009 - Fiction - 1008 pages

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions.

 

Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the reviews for have been dazzling: “Brilliant” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel), “Daring” (Boston Globe), “Immensely entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “A tour de force” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), while Time magazine proclaims, “The great novel of ideas…has morphed into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.”

 

Contents

part 1 Provener
1
part 2 Apert
55
part 3 Eliger
159
part 4 Anathem
191
part 5 Voco
243
part 6 Peregrin
323
part 7 Feral
405
part 8 Orithena
531
part 10 Messal
651
part 11 Advent
757
part 12 Requiem
875
part 13 Reconstitution
919
Glossary
933
Cutting the Cake
955
Hemn Configuration Space
961
Complex Versus Simple Protism
973

part 9 Inbrase
599
Acknowledgments
983

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Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning...Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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