(urth) OT: Anathem

Kerry Benton k.benton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 12:53:43 PDT 2008


That's because Dirda told you it was :

"The plot of Anathem is basically this: It's the far future of an
Earth-like planet called Orth."

It's kind of a small thing, unless you're a book reviewer for a major
news organization, in which case it's not the kind of thing you ought
to screw up.

-k

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> ohhh, that review made me think the planet was called Orth.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Matthew Groves
> <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> is it really totally OK to write a fantasy book about a future version of
>>> our planet and call it "Orth"?
>>
>>
>> Well, I don't know, maybe not, but it's a moo point (as Joey Tribiani
>> would say).  Stephenson's Anathem is a postcyberpunk sf novel about another
>> World, with a planet called Arbre, on which there is a language called Orth.



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