Well now things seem to popping up today (these are the fast readers!)  Matt @ More Light!  More Light! has a very well written review of Anathem.  AND the usual review caveats apply!  If you do not want to know stop now.

OK if you are still interested click here! I have to admit that this certainly more thoughtful and through than anything that I have read yet. Happy clicking oh and happy waiting until you actually can read this awesome book.

Publishers Weekly has a review of Anathem posted, only about a paragraph but a Review none the less.

Over at KGB, you can buy a raffle ticket for your chance to win a galley of Anathem.  Not a bad deal to get your hands on a copy early and help somebody nice out in the process.

At The Long Now Blog they have a rather unique insight for Anathem, as it turns out it was a question posed by The Long Now Co-Chairman Danny Hillis about what a possible The Millennium Clock might look like. This is quite interesting and the board of directors is a who’s who of pretty cool people (Hillis, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Chris Anderson, only to name a few…) and technological luminaries to say the least along with Brian Eno, the board is just jam packed with awesome thinkers.  The site is certainly worth a read.  Plus as if advances of the book were not cool enough…

“The Long Now Foundation will be hosting the book launch event in San Francisco on the evening of September 9th.  The evening will include a reading by Stephenson, Q&A with Danny Hillis, and a small concert of the original music inspired by the book.  Signed copies of the book will also be available.”

So join up soon and you too might get a shot at and invitation to what looks to be a very good time.

OK, I think that this pretty interesting and really had to sit back and really marvel at the fact that this was a book group meeting in The Readers Garden on Info Island within Second Life to discuss Snow Crash.  I mean WOW. Here is a group getting together to discuss a book that influenced, if not directly inspired, the very place in which they are meeting in…heavy, huh.  Anyway here is the link to a blog with all the details if your interested.

OK now you have been warned.  It is a review and there is some awesome info but if you want remain completely unknowing of setting, plot, etc stop reading…and most certainly don’t click here.

It seems that Amazon has updated the blurb on Anathem with a bit more detail…seriously is it September yet!

The IO9 blog let us know that FORA.tv has posted a video of the Stephenson talk at Gresham College. It is implied that you can only watch the highlights of the presentation, but the whole thing is playing for me. Science Fiction as a Literary Genre.