· This wiki is about Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. (Buy the book.) Anathem is a novel of speculative fiction set on a world where scholars live apart from the rest of society at a time when great events are breaking down traditional barriers. The novel involves numerous ideas in physics, cosmology and philosophy as well as social commentary, mixed in with science fiction concepts and . Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable—yet strangely inverted—world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from /5(K). 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 /5(K).
Clocks, Orreries, etc. It will be obvious to many readers that the Millennium Clocks mentioned in Anathem are inspired by The 10, Year Clock, a project conceived circa by Danny Hillis and currently under development by The Long Now Foundation.I first became aware of the idea, and discussed it with Danny and with Stewart Brand, at a Hackers Conference in the mids. Neal Stephenson's long-awaited new novel, Anathem, was published in September, and went straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Set not on Earth, but on a planet called Arbre that is similar to our own in many ways, Anathem is narrated by Erasmus, a young man who has lived much of his life as an "avout" — a member of a monastic community comprised not of religious. Anathem is, at its heart, a novel about the scientific method. I think it's the first book by Stephenson that elegantly mingles his tendencies (and obsessions) as a writer with the interests (and obsessions) of the characters and makes the whole novel feel coherent. All of Stephenson's books are prone to discursive infodumps, but they've.
Neal Stephenson - Anathem. ANATHEM. In , Danny Hillis asked me and several other people to contribute back-of-napkin sketches depicting our conceptions of the Clock of the Long Now. These were never intended as serious design proposals--it was more of an exercise to show how different people thought about the idea. At the time, many newspapers and magazines had been publishing end-of-decade, end-of-century, and even end-of-millennium news summaries in addition to the end-of-year ones. Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism. Anathem is another incredible book by Neal Stephenson, although probably not for everyone. Highly philosophical, brimming with hard science, it is the story of a world where scientists have been more-or-less sequestered for centuries in "maths" (the scientific equivalent of a monastery), living ascetic lives and devising high philosophy of the universe.
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