Archive for March, 2008
Stephenson moves to Atlantic Books
As reported by TheBookseller.com, it appears Neal has moved to Atlantic Books for his UK publisher. Atlantic Books is an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Ltd. Anathem will be published by William Morrow in the US.
Here is the relevent Anathem info… Mirchandani said: “Anathem manages to remind the reader of H G Wells, Umberto Eco and Mervyn Peake and yet be entirely and gloriously itself. I am entirely delighted Stephenson will be joining us at Atlantic.”
No commentsStephenson on Parenting
Recently in the Geekdad Blog on Wired Blogs, part of Neal’s parenting philosophy is discussed.
He pointed to an unfinished kayak under a tarp. He said he was slowly working on it, in part to mentor his kids, even though they did no work on the boat, nor express the least bit of interest in this project. None-the-less he continued puttering on the undertaking while they were home. Stephenson said when he was a kid, his dad was constantly tinkering on some garage project or another, and despite Neal’s complete indifference for any of his dad’s enthusiasms at the time, he was influenced by this embedded tinkering. It was part of the family scene, part of his household, like mealtime style, or the pattern of interactions between siblings. [More]
No commentsAmazon.co.uk posts Anathem blurb
Amazon.co.uk has posted a marketing blurb for Anathem,
Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of “Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon”.Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable “saecular” world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown.
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