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Cool and Crap Awards of the Week
This week, at least two things happened in the worlds of science and fiction: one was cool; the other was crap.Coolest way to get Neal Stephenson fans hopped up on goofballs using monks: Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, has a new book coming out in September called Anathem. The plot has been shrouded in secrecy, though Stephenson has said in a few interviews that it will involve aliens and math. And this week, advance copies of the book started arriving in reviewers' mailboxes, packaged with a CD containing several pieces of music that sound like Gregorian chants, the beautiful songs sung by monks in the middle ages. Supposedly this music will "set the tone" for the book. We'll have a review for you in September, but for now you can freak out with anticipation by listening to choruses of men chanting. Click through for the crap (may include spoilers): More »
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Plot of New Neal Stephenson Novel Revealed
We've heard rumors about Neal "Snow Crash" Stephenson's new novel, but nothing more concrete than that it would be called Anathem and it would be a space opera about math and aliens. That would mark a real departure for the novelist, who has dealt only with human histories and futures in his previous works like The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon. Now Lev Grossman, Time magazine's nerd correspondent, has more details about the plot of Anathem. More »
Neal Stephenson's New Novel Remains Shrouded in Mystery
You can now pre-order Neal "Cryptonomicon" Stephenson's new novel Anathem, due out in September, but as of yet the author has made very few comments about it. Nor has his publisher, William Morrow. All we know comes from the LiveJournal entry of a Google employee who asked the author about it last year when he read at the Google Kirkland campus. She writes, "It's set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It's really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit, just like the pirates kept people engaged in the Baroque books." Plus, we can guess that the title is a mashup of the words anathema and anthem, which is a darn cool coinage. [Pre-order Anathem
You can now pre-order Neal "Cryptonomicon" Stephenson's new novel Anathem, due out in September, but as of yet the author has made very few comments about it. Nor has his publisher, William Morrow. All we know comes from the LiveJournal entry of a Google employee who asked the author about it last year when he read at the Google Kirkland campus. She writes, "It's set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It's really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit, just like the pirates kept people engaged in the Baroque books." Plus, we can guess that the title is a mashup of the words anathema and anthem, which is a darn cool coinage. [Pre-order Anathem
