Well probably blowing my chances of winning but over here, is a link to Fantasy Book Critic and the giveaway of 8 copies of Anathem.  But you probably don’t want a free copy anyway so just ignore this and go back to work…

io9, has a video of Neal discussing some of the philosophy that he used as a background for his new novel.  The exclusive video looks to be from the same vintage as the Amazon videos, but is not listed there (or maybe Neal doesn’t have that many ties and likes that background enough that it travels with him…just a thought).  But is pretty cool to watch none the less.

Here is the 1st of (what I hope!) are many appearances that Neal Stephenson will be making with the release of Anathem.

Third Place Books Sunday September 14th at 5:30pm Neal will be there.  Not a lot of details here to work with.

University of Washington Bookstore, on September 9th,  tickets $5 or free ticket with purchase of a book!

Oh and here is the list from Harper Collins

that’s it for now…