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Stephenson, Neal Anathem
Harper August 25, 2009 0-06-147410-X / 9780061474101 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (Cryptonomicon) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematicians--a religious order unto themselves--have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now a decenarian, or tenner (someone allowed contact with the world beyond the stronghold walls only once a decade). But millennia-old rules are cataclysmically shattered when extraterrestrial catastrophe looms, and Raz and his teenage companions--engaging in intense intellectual debate one moment, wrestling like rambunctious adolescents the next--are summoned to save the world. Stephenson's expansive storytelling echoes Walter Miller's classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, the space operas of Larry Niven and the cultural meditations Douglas Hofstadter--a heady mix of antecedents that makes for long stretches of dazzling entertainment occasionally interrupted by pages of numbing colloquy.
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Stephenson, Neal Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle
ARROW October 7, 2004 0-09-941068-0 / 9780099410683 Paperback Near Fine
Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel t hat's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II codebreaking a nd disinformation to the latest issues of Internet data privacy. Quicksilver, "Volume One of the Baroque Cycle", backtracks to another time of high intellectual ferment: the late 17th century, with the natural philo sophers of England's newly formed Royal Society questioning the universe an d dissecting everything that moves. One founding member, the Rev John Wilki ns, really did write science fiction and a book on cryptography--but this i sn't history as we know it, for here his code book is called not Mercury bu t Cryptonomicon. And although the key political schemers of Charles II's go vernment still have initials spelling the word CABAL, their names are all d ifferent... While towering geniuses like Newton and Leibniz decode nature itself, bizar re adventures (merely beginning with the Great Plague and Great Fire) happe n to the fictional Royal Society member Daniel Waterhouse, who knows everyo ne but isn't quite bright enough for cutting-edge science. Two generations of Daniel's family appear in Cryptonomicon, as does a descendant of the Sha ftoes who here are soldiers and vagabonds. Other links include the island r ealm of Qwghlm with its impossible language and the mysterious, seemingly a geless alchemist Enoch Root. As the reign of Charles II gives way to that of James II and then William of Orange, Stephenson traces the complex lines of finance and power that form the 17th-century Internet. Gold and sil
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