Anathem
2008 • 1,092 pages

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Having lived in a monastery since childhood away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, Raz becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a fear-driven higher power to avert an impending catastrophe. By the author of Cryptonomicon. 250,000 first printing.


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Anathem is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Neal Stephenson.

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Anathem, vol. 2: Il nuovo cielo

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