{"id":669,"date":"2008-09-10T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:08:38","slug":"anathem-is-now-at-a-store-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/anathem-is-now-at-a-store-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Anathem is Now At a Store Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson&#8217;s new novel <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Anathem\/Neal-Stephenson\/e\/9780061474095\/?itm=1\">Anathem<\/a> is now in stores and I cannot wait to devour every one of its yummy 960 pages.<br \/>\nBack in August <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/art\/magazine\/16-09\/mf_stephenson\">Wired wrote a great profile on Stephenson<\/a> which I suggest you read.  I learned quite a bit about him that I did not already know and found it quite interesting.<br \/>\nIf you are thinking to yourself right now &#8220;Who is Neal Stephenson?&#8221; and\/or you haven&#8217;t read any of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?as_auth=Neal+Stephenson\">his other books, like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Snow Crash,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cryptonomicon<\/span> or the three book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Baroque Cycle,<\/span><\/a> you are seriously missing out on some fantastic literature.  Along with King and Gaiman, Stephenson is hands down my favorite living author.  Please do not make me rank them.  Please.<br \/>\nTo get all sorts of fired up about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anathem<\/span>, please watch the interview below.  In it Neal talks about the themes that make up his new novel:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/84hdVc6NDV8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/84hdVc6NDV8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nLast but not least, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/archives\/000009.html\">check out this blurb from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cryptonomicon<\/span><\/a> that I posted back when I was just starting this blog.<br \/>\nSome via Neu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Stephenson&#8217;s new novel Anathem is now in stores and I cannot wait to devour every one of its yummy 960 pages. Back in August Wired wrote a great profile on Stephenson which I suggest you read. I learned quite a bit about him that I did not already know and found it quite interesting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[381,609],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-literature","tag-stephenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}