barnesandnoble.com - 10/15/2008
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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 ...
telegraph.co.uk - 10/19/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Andrew McKie commends the challenge presented by a
vast and ambitious novel I think this novel is
wonderful. So I don't want to put you off. But let's be clear: there is plenty to put you off. There is a strong case for thinking this book utterly ...
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Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
bigdumbobject.co.uk - 10/22/2008
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bigdumbobject.co.uk —
There's a cool interview with Neal Stephenson at
Barnes&Noble which I've only just read. I was putting
off reading anything about Anathem until I'd finished it, but now I'm half way through I figured it would be okay. It's taking me a long time ...
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Great Neal Stephenson Interview
io9.com - 10/22/2008
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io9.com —
If geek stuff is so hip, then why
are two of the season's biggest scifi hits —
CBS show Eleventh Hour and bestselling Neal Stephenson novel Anathem — adamantly classified as Not Scifi? Because nerd culture will never be pop culture. ...
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SF Signal —
... Ford (Well-Built City Trilogy). @Ingram Library: Alethea Kontis sits down with dynamic publishing duo Ann and Jeff Vandermeer @Whatever: Matthew Stover (Caine Black Knife). @Iain-Banks.net: The latest Q&A; session with Iain Banks. [via Orbit Books blog] @The Nebula Awards: Mary Turzillo ("Mars is No Place for Children" and "Pride"). B&N; Review interviews Neal Stephenson (Anathem).
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SF Signal —
... and long and interesting interview with Neal Stephenson on Barnes and Noble's website. Aside from discussing many things Anathem, I'd like to follow up on the same quote that Wil talks about: ...
Great Neal Stephenson Interview
Big Dumb Object —
There's a cool interview with Neal Stephenson at Barnes&Noble which I've only just read. I was putting off reading anything about Anathem until I'd finished it, but now I'm half way through I figured it would be okay. It's taking me a long time to read Anathem, not just because it's big, but also because there a large passages that I keep wanting to read ...
A brace of interviews: Richard Morgan and Neal Stephenson
Futurismic —
It’s just like buses; you wait ages for a decent in-depth author interview, then two come along at once. Not that I’m complaining, mind you!
First up is a chat with Neal Stephenson on the Barnes & Noble website, which is mostly about Stephenson’s latest breezeblock novel Anathem, but contains other goodies too:
JM: You write with a fountain pen.
NS: Yes.
JM: Have you always done that?
NS: No. I started that with the Baroque Cycle. Cryptonomicon was the last thing I wrote ...
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Anathem: Neal Stephenson: Books
amazon.com 8/27/2008 — From Publishers Weekly 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, ...
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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Entertainment : Neal Stephenson Reads from "Anathem"
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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 ...
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 ...
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 by Neal Stephonson: Review
threetreesstudios.com 4/2/2009 — 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 ...
Review of Anathem by Neal Stephenson
sffaudio.com 4/10/2009 —
Anathem
By Neal Stephenson; Read by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and Neal Stephenson
Audible Download - 32 hours 30 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 2008
Themes: / alien invasion / philosophy / religion / alternate universe
After nearly ...
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