Lewis Powell
I haven't read the book "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson yet (I just bought it today), but I bought because a friend recommended it to me, and it has been a while since I read any fiction.
The reason I am posting about my fiction reading here is due to the way my friend sold me on it. He told me about this description of the book (which was given while the book was being written):
"[Stephenson]'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" (source).
So, maybe its cheating to count it as fiction, since I decided to get it based on the promise of philosophy, but I think I'm okay with that.
I haven't read the book "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson yet (I just bought it today), but I bought because a friend recommended it to me, and it has been a while since I read any fiction.
The reason I am posting about my fiction reading here is due to the way my friend sold me on it. He told me about this description of the book (which was given while the book was being written):
"[Stephenson]'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" (source).
So, maybe its cheating to count it as fiction, since I decided to get it based on the promise of philosophy, but I think I'm okay with that.
