On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot >> version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if >> it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards. > > For someone who has read Anathem but not Cryptonomicon, can you expand > on the "Slashdot version of the 20th Century"? The slashdot comment makes me > think of Stand on Zanzibar, but I guess that is not what you meant. It just ticks all the boxes for that crowd: history of computing, data havens, conspiracy theories, random trivia. > What did you think of Anathem? I liked it: http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/09/anathem_by_neal.shtml Martin _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
