È l'anno 3689 e il pianeta Arbre vive un periodo di pace e serenità. Nel suo passato ci sono imperi, colpi di stato militari, gli Eventi Tragici e la Ricostituzione, il Primo, il Secondo e il Terzo Sacco, ma nei secoli è stato raggiunto un equilibrio. Gli scienziati, i matematici, i filosofi vivono chiusi nei loro "concenti", e si dedicano alla pura speculazione teorica senza avere nessun contatto con la tecnologia, che invece segna l'esistenza del resto della popolazione: gli "extramuros", sottoposti al Potere Secolare. Ma qualcosa minaccia l'ordine perfetto di Arbre: lo dimostra l'espulsione dal concento di Saunt Edhar, al canto struggente dell'Anathem, del sapiente Orolo, che osservando il cielo ha scoperto un oggetto luminoso in avvicinamento. Sarà il suo allievo prediletto, il diciottenne fraa Erasmas, ad avere una parte cruciale nel dramma che sta per svolgersi su Arbre. E toccherà a lui, alla compagna Ala e agli altri novizi esplorare il mondo di fuori: sino ai confini più estremi.
Neal Stephenson Libri
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Termination shock
Soluzione estrema
Gioco mortale
- 744pagine
- 27 ore di lettura
The System of the World
- 912pagine
- 32 ore di lettura
The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an
"Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital"--
The confusion
- 926pagine
- 33 ore di lettura
In this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque.
King of the Vagabonds
- 377pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.--back cover
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present, Cryptonomicon explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century in a gripping and page-turning thriller.
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ...
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.



