Amazon.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.
Well, I’m just about as excited as I’ve ever been about anything. I’d like to know how many pages it is going to be. Here’s hoping for another c3000 page slab of greatness a la Baroque Cycle.
Also, I think the reports of a post-apocalyoptic setting, based presumably on this very blurb, are sorely mis-guided. My prediction is of a perfectly contemporary setting… casinos, climate change, fear - sounds like Saturday night, baby.