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Anathem by Neal Stephenson

By Elizabeth Sourbut

12 November 2008

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‘s latest novel is a smorgasbord of high adventure, quantum physics and musings on the nature of consciousness.

On the planet Arbre, young Fraa Erasmas is a member of one of the many enclosed communities of intellectuals who are only allowed contact with the rest of the world once every decade or century. This arrangement was set up thousands of years before after a series of unspecified Terrible Events. Back then, theoreticians, computer scientists and practical engineers worked together to produce the fearsome Everything Killers, and now the…

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