Amazon.com has listed the release date of Anathem as September 9th. This helps confirm the entry under Neal Stephenson’s bibliography on Wikipedia, that Neal’s new book will be called Anathem. Still no word on what it’s about.
Neal has gotten a number of quotes in blogs this week:
Neal was invited to visit the Google Kirkland facility, and a small group of people got to have lunch with him while asking him a couple of probing questions.
The interesting bits are that the Diamond Age Mini-series is currently in production and the following bit about Anathem:
He’s writing a science fiction novel unrelated to Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle. It’s set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It’s really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit, just like the pirates kept people engaged in the Baroque books. He’s nearly finished writing it, and if he doesn’t finish by the end of the calendar year he’ll have to give some money back. If everything proceeds according to schedule, it should be available in stores in about a year.
Slashdot arranged a question and answer with Neal. The questions cover diverse topics such as constitutional questions, physics, money, and dead operating systems. You can check out all of the questions, and even more importantly the answers at /.
Locus Magazine interviewed Neal for their August 2004 edition. They have made excerpts of the interview available on their website.
Salon conducted a simply massive interview with Neal.
An interview with Neal Stephenson was published on the Cryptonomicon website.
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Wired.com interviews Neal about the release of The Confusion and it’s themes.
Harper Collins has released an interview with Neal that About.com is being kind enough to host. Neal talks about Quicksilver, the time it is set in, the characters, etc.
Paul Crowley has documented a bias problem in the Solitaire (Pontifex) encryption algorithm used in the Cryptonomicon book by Enoch Root and Randy Waterhouse. [More]