Rating: *****
Tags: Fiction, General, Lang:en
Summary
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.”