'avishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious.ANATHEM is thought-provoking fun, at turns a post-graduate seminar of philosophy and physics, and a rousing yarn with characters you care about.'-Orlando Sentinel on ANATHEM If there's anything more readable than ANATHEM it should probably be banned.'-Word (UK) on ANATHEM 'As with Stephenson's previous work, plot and character are wrought to the highest standards of literary fiction but they're scarcely as fascinating as the worlds he conjures up. 'Anyone who has read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle will be familiar with his ingenuity when it comes to mixing science, sociology and satire with swashbuckling adventure, and ANATHEM duly marries extensive dialogues on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness to literal cliffhangers, high-tech warfare and general derring-do.'-The Examiner (Ireland) on ANATHEM 'The cult legend's newest book, Anathem, destined to be an instant sci-fi classic.'-Popular Mechanics on ANATHEM 'A daring feat of speculative fiction.ANATHEM offers the reader a luscious arrangement of words, jokes, and speculations.'-Boston Globe Anathem marries extensive scientific and philosophical dialogues to cliffhangers, hi-tech warfare and derring-do.'-Sunday Sun (UK) on ANATHEM 'Stephenson displays his ingenuity when it comes to mixing science, sociology and satire with swashbuckling adventure.

'Anathem duly marries extensive dialogues on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness to literal cliffhangers, hi-tech warfare and derring-do.'-Leicester Mercury on ANATHEM 'Stephenson's expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller's classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations of Douglas Hofstadter - a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment.'-Publishers Weekly on ANATHEM 'He mashes up genres with the flair of Thomas Pynchon and the intellect of William Gibson.'-Winnipeg Free Press on ANATHEM

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