entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 11/10/2008
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s new novel is a great thick brick of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in science fiction, but Stephenson really wants his ...
io9.com - 11/10/2008
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io9.com —
The best science fiction novel of 2008 was
Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation , according to Amazon.com's new
top 10 list, compiled by io9 contributor Jeff VanderMeer. The story of a gang of super-criminals reuniting to save a fallen America that's reinstated human slavery beat out Neal ...
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Liberation Is A Better Novel Than Anathem, Says Amazon ...
tor.com - 11/18/2008
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tor.com —
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 ...
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Anathem: what does it gain from not being our world?
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As Tom Shippey Sees Us
Torque Control —
... In the TLS, reviewing Anathem. It is not, in my view, a particularly good review; in the first paragraph, he seems to imply that Cryptonomicon is Stephenson’s fourth novel, and refers to the Baroque Cycle as the “Baroque Trilogy”; in the second he asserts that Anathem starts out looking like “high fantasy”, which really isn’t the description I’d choose; and he gives away what’s really going on in the book (a revelation withheld until about two-thirds of the way through which, though it’s not an easy ...
Anathem: what does it gain from not being our world?
Tor.com —
... “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 that includes spaceships and the scientific method. ...
The 2009 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist
Torque Control —
... Reviewed by Eric Brown for The Guardian
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright for SFX
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
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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 ...
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sffaudio.com 4/10/2009 —
Anathem
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blogs.feministsf.net 12/1/2008 — Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem” is not a specifically feminist work, but it’s a blast to read. It has his standard socially inept male protaganist, Fraa Erasmus; a female love interest whom he perceives as way better than he is socially, intellectually, and emotionally, Suur Ala; and an incredibly comp
Top Five Books of 2008
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Review | Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor UK)
walkerofworlds.blogspot.com 8/3/2009 — Title: Orbus Author: Neal Asher Publisher: Tor UK Format: Hardback Pages: 448 Release Date: September 4th 2009 In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn’t know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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