You can now pre-order Neal “Cryptonomicon” Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, due out in September, but as of yet the author has made very few comments about it. Nor has his publisher, William Morrow. All we know comes from the LiveJournal entry of a Google employee who asked the author about it last year when he read at the Google Kirkland campus. She writes, “It’s set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It’s really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit, just like the pirates kept people engaged in the Baroque books.” Plus, we can guess that the title is a mashup of the words anathema and anthem, which is a darn cool coinage. [Pre-order Anathem
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Neal Stephenson’s New Novel Remains Shrouded in Mystery
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