Anathem
For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on...
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For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change—and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world, as he follows his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061694943 (0061694940)
ASIN: 0061694940
Publish date: 2010-09-01
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 981
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Science,
Speculative Fiction,
Philosophy,
Cyberpunk,
Mathematics,
Fiction
Neal Stephenson is an excellent imaginative writer. If you decide to read this book I recommend taking your time and having a notepad next to you to take notes. What he did with this book is amazing and confusing. It takes place on an kind of an alternate version of Earth, which shares some simi...
I've read some incredible science fiction this year. The Sparrow. The Algebraist. And now Anathem. This genre still has the capacity to surprise me, to captivate me, to inspire me - and I value that more and more the older I get. I need it more.I wouldn't have picked up any of these books - wouldn't...
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