Zivan - Childless Cat GuyMar 5

Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.

It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.

https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412

(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).

For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:

https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127

@bookstodon @audiobooks

#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast

SFBRP #581 – Neal Stephenson – Anathem | Science Fiction Book Review Podcast

Show threadMidgePhotoFeb 13
@cathill one of our local stars tends to use a wide angle.
A larger #sensor will show less #noise on long exposures.
In #SciFi a fisheye telescope sits atop the math in #Anathem by #NealStephenson recording 180° of the sky all round. #Clepsythra's Eye.
Show threadMidgePhotoDec 21

@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #Anathem

Which also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.

#Analemma #Solstice

Show threadMidgePhotoNov 1

@cstross @stevenaleach
Universities hang around. Building a department which can sustain an area of study through many generations of graduate students, PhDs and professorships wouldn't be trivial.

#Anathem doesn't seem ridiculous on that.

The Long Range Foundation is even better named for this than the Long Now, albeit the latter is real.

MidgePhotoOct 3

@jaztrophysicist
Neal Stephenson, in his large #SciFi novel #Anathem introduces the Lorites, a mathic community who specialise in knowing, and telling people, if something had been thought about and out previously.

On the one hand they can save a lot of work...

Good book.

Show threadMidgePhotoSep 5, 2025
@glynmoody If we are heading for a Rampant Botnet Ecology then let it be Orphaned as early as possible.
#Anathem #ROBE #SciFi #SF
Rapid Eye Electronics LtdAug 26, 2025
Okay. I’m going in. Wish me well. #books #anathem
Show threadMichael KazarnowiczJun 2, 2025

I also started reading "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, having really enjoyed both “Snow Crash" and “Seveneves”.

The story starts first about 20% into the book, and the world building is heavy in the first fifth. It's not a book I'd recommend to someone who's just starting with sci-fi, but I enjoyed trusting the process that I'd understand all the new terms eventually.

If it keeps being this good, Stephenson is 3 for 3 in my book.

#bookstodon #scifi #anathem #NealStephenson

(dubious) opinion haver May 30, 2025
Phew. Done. I want my life back.
#Anathem
#books
Show threadThorne LawlerMay 28, 2025
@KathyReid So Sandi Toksvig, Alan Garber, and Fabiola Gianotti will presumably be the founders of the First Mathic Age after Putin, Trump, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu and Starmer collectively pull the rug out from under civilization.
#Anathem