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Archive for September, 2008

Happy Anathem Day!

September 9th, 2008

Well today is the day, I am sure by now everyone is hanging out in front of your favorite bookstore or feverishly tracking packages from Amazon (Anathem on Amazon).

Slothrop has informed us that anathembook.com went live, as well as nealstephenson.com, with content.  The video’s section is cool.  But being greeted by that trailer still weirds me out.  The rest of the site is pretty blah actually with just coming soon! placed on most pages.

Here is what Wired thinks you need to do to get ready for Anathem.

And Rudy Rucker’s take on Anathem.

ph5il Anathem, Books, News

Neal and Cell Phone Etiquette

September 8th, 2008

wow, I have to admit when io9 hinted at an interview with Neal about the book, I really hoped for more than a couple of block quotes on cell phone etiquette.

ph5il Interviews

Couple more reviews for Anathem

September 8th, 2008

Complete-Review and the LA Times their reviews posted.  And finally it is the 8th only one more day of reading reviews before you can actually go out and read the book.

ph5il Anathem, Books, Reviews

Snow Crash cover gallery

September 8th, 2008

Here is a link to a cool cover gallery for Snow Crash, just in case all this Anathem talk might be too much for you (and if it is you might want to skip the next few posts…not that you’d want to do that!)

ph5il Books, Snow Crash

io9 review of Anathem

September 5th, 2008

io9 has a review of Anathem up with a pretty good, substantive look at the book we ALL want to read.

ph5il Anathem, Appearances, Books, Reviews

Ticket Giveaway for The Long Now Foundation

September 5th, 2008

Over here Legend Mag, they are having a giveaway for tickets to the Long Now Foundation Neal Stephenson/Anathem party they are having.  So if you are close by and don’t have tickets here’s your chance!

ph5il Anathem, Appearances, Books

A Guide to Orth

September 4th, 2008

abyrneseyeview stumbled upon what appears to be a guide to the language Orth (which is featured in Anathem). The guide doesn’t seem to be completed, and having not read Anathem at this point, I am not certain of it’s relevance. You can check it out here.

Corvar Anathem, Books

MySpace video for Anathem

September 3rd, 2008

Here is an video that is on the William Morrow channel on MySpace, it was created by Seattle based filmmaker Brady Hall (and seems to have a catalog of Harper Collins projects), and the site links to the as of yet parked anathembook.com site.  It is in a word its…interesting, I have watched 3 times and I am still scratching my head not really knowing how to take this.  It is cool to see Anathem getting all this attention.  But take a look for yourself, and let me know how you feel about it.

ph5il Anathem, Books

Neal on The Beyond

September 3rd, 2008

The Beyond will feature Neal Stephenson TAKING LIVE CALLS!!!! So think up your questions fast, he’ll be on their show Thursday 4th Sept.  Here is the info from the EOS books blog.

ph5il Anathem, Appearances, Books, Interviews

Seattle Times Article

September 2nd, 2008

Here is an article from the Seattle Times on Neal.  It must be getting close to the 9th Sept…

ph5il Anathem, Books, Interviews