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September 03 2008
Calling Nerds who Like Books: Neal Stephenson in PDX
Empfohlen von Josh Bancroft
Whoa! Neal Stephenson's coming to Portland! At the venerable Bagdad, no less! Don't miss this, you'll kick yourself if you do...
For those of you who like your novels witty, visionary and geekoriffic, you might want to know that cyperpunk maestro Neal Stephenson will be at the Bagdad Theater on Sept. 16. The author of the seminal and comic sui generis Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle series will be talking about (and signing copies of) his new novel, Anathem.
From Powell’s synopsis of Anathem:
Since childhood, nineteen-year old Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400 year old monastery — a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians; for those who live (and thrive, living) the life of the mind. Within their sanctuary he and his cohorts are safely sealed off from the world outside: an illiterate, irrational, unpredictable world; an endless landscape of casinos and megastores, plagued by recurring booms and busts, dark ages and reawakenings, wars between individuals and among nations.
Advance tickets are $5 plus fiscal rape charge if you buy them online.
Who’s with me? I personally celebrate the man’s entire catalog.
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