(urth) OT: Anathem

Rjyan Kadwallader cexwell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 12:42:16 PDT 2008


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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