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Anathem makes me wish I was a scientist-monk

posted 16 Sep 2008 (Tue) at 2:34p.m. from the couch

I'm right in the middle of Neal Stephenson's new tome Anathem, and it's like Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy - it's making me wish I'd studied some kind of hard science or classics, and that I had a bunch of really geeky friends to hang out and trade theorems with. Anathem is novel of big ideas - science, philosophy, and religion - but it also shot through with a melancholy longing that really gets to me. I haven't finished it yet, but so far I think it's as good as, or maybe even better than Cryptonomicon, if such a thing is possible.

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