threetreesstudios.com - 4/2/2009
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Typically I read books quickly, and as someone who spends a considerable amount of time writing and editing have trouble avoiding thoughts about how I would have written something. Moreover as someone who is constantly trolling for new ideas I am searching a book for things that I can use in my ...
In Which I Blame George W. Bush for Anathem
spiralgalaxyreviews.blogspot.com 8/17/2009 — Some sf books are novels of power, where fully realized characters move through richly painted landscapes and evoke ideas of stunning originality. I love those books! Anathem is not that book. Other sf books are intricate puzzles for the mind, inviting you to enjoy identifying and solving ...
The 2009 Hugo Awards: The Best Novel Shortlist, Part 2
wrongquestions.blogspot.com 7/18/2009 — [part 1 here]By the time I got around to reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother I'd developed something of a complex about the book. That'll happen when every single thing you read about a novel that is, by any yardstick of critical exposure and ...
Anathem: what does it gain from not being our world?
tor.com 11/18/2008 — Tom Shippey, who isn’t an idiot, called Neal Stephenson’s Anathem “high fantasy” in the Times . So in my second reading of Anathem in the two months since it came out, I was trying to figure out what he meant when he used that term about a book ...
Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and Spoilers
io9.com 9/10/2008 — Today Neal Stephenson's long-awaited new novel Anathem hits the bookstores. We've already told you that this tale of science monks on another planet is cool, action-packed, and thought-provoking -- probably one of the best novels of Stephenson's ...
Neal Stephenson, Anathem (2008)
punkadiddle.blogspot.com 2/2/2009 — Considerably better formed and more enjoyable than Stephenson’s prodigiously clotted Baroque books, Anathem is a pudding baked of equal parts Harry Potter, A Canticle of Liebowitz , Tolkien, Heinlein’s juveniles (or some of them) and Bertrand ...
Interview: Neal Stephenson, Anathem - B&N Review
barnesandnoble.com 10/15/2008 — 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 ...
Gary K. Wolfe: Reconsidering
locusmag.com 2/11/2009 — I have to admit I'm relieved to find others sharing my hesitation over the whole notion of year's best lists, but at the same time your comments convince me that there is value in revisiting the past year's books, lists or no lists, and part of that ...
2008: The Year in Science Fiction Literature
booksandauthorsblog.com 1/20/2009 — During the 1980s, science fiction became more reflective of the present than the future and has subsequently become increasingly interested in short term extrapolations rather than the future a century or more from now. Although there have been ...
Neal Stephenson’s in time with Anathem
yatterings.com 8/20/2008 — Stephen Levy over at Wired has this great piece on the new Neal Stephenson novel, Anathem, which disusses the Long Now foundation, 10000 year clock and time.
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