Anathem

Anathem

• Neal Stephenson, Anathem

<p>A #1 <em>New York Times </em>Bestseller, <em>Anathem </em>is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with <em>Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, </em>and <em>The Baroque Cycle</em>. 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. </p><p> </p><p><em>Anathem</em> won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the reviews for have been dazzling: “Brilliant” (<em>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</em>), “Daring” (<em>Boston Globe</em>), “Immensely entertaining” (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>), “A tour de force” (<em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>), while <em>Time </em>magazine proclaims, “The great novel of ideas…has morphed into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.”</p>