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Anathem

Review by James Lovegrove

Published: October 20 2008 06:37 | Last updated: October 20 2008 06:37

Anathem
By Neal Stephenson
Atlantic Books £18.99
937 pages
FT Bookshop price: £15.19

Early on in Anathem, one character says: “I have to counter-strafe the new clanex recompensators – the fan-out tree’s starting to look a bit clumpy, if you ask me.” To which another character responds: “I have no idea what that means.”

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