![]() “Anathem” is massive also - 900-plus pages - with a steep initial learning curve, but worth the effort all the same.įiction that expertly ranges from social satire to adventure yarn to lucid explications of concepts such as configuration space is rare indeed. “What if?” is the purview of the science-fiction novelist, and in “Anathem,” Neal Stephenson, newly finished with an extended foray into the realm of historical fiction (“Cryptonomicon” and the massive three-volume Baroque Cycle), answers that question by returning to the genre he calls home. But what if these two cultures were separated not just by differences in principles, interests and standards, but were physically divided as well? ![]() ![]() ![]() Snow delivered his famous lecture on the “Two Cultures” in 1959, he pointed out that the sciences and the humanities seemed to be running along increasingly disconnected tracks. ![]()
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