Anathem

Taschenbuch, 937 Seiten

Sprache: English, Turkish

Am 5. November 2014 von HarperCollins veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-975-539-788-7
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OCLC-Nummer:
949370169

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Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside — the …

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hat Anathem von Neal Stephenson besprochen

3rd time around...

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...and honestly, I'm glad I went back for thirds. I felt like I finally understood a lot of things that previously eluded me. It's actually made me want to go back and revisit some of Stephenson's other books (Cryptonomicon especially) to see if I can wrap my head around those a little better.

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