![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, the book is peppered with words from language that Stephenson made up for the planet of Arbre where the story is set. The book follows the adventures of Erasmas, a young “avout” who is trying to save his planet from an attack from another civilization while also trying to find his mentor who was “anathemized” from the “concent” where they used to live. The topics the book grapples with along with the dense prose requires one to be alert and actively engage with the story anything less, and one will be left feeling dazed and lost! ![]() At 932 pages, it’s not a book which one can breeze through. It led me to look up more on him, finally resulting in my buying Anathem, his latest novel.įinally done with this behemoth of a novel I can say with confidence that in a word Anathem is an intellectual feast (ok that’s two words but you get my drift)! It’s also – to repeat myself – a behemoth of a novel. A while back while browsing through some sites I came across the name Neal Stephenson again and again and this piqued my curiousity. ![]()
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