Anatema by Neal Stephenson
Set on an Earth-like world where dedicated scholarly communities live apart to preserve rigorous inquiry, the story follows a young cloistered thinker whose quiet intellectual life is upended when outside events force him and his peers to confront a mysterious external phenomenon; blending speculative adventure with dense philosophical and mathematical debate, the narrative explores consciousness, cosmology, the nature of knowledge, and the social responsibility of ideas as these cloistered scholars are drawn into a crisis that tests their theories and their ability to act in the world.
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- 2008
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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