<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Andrew Mason> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_ is reminiscent of _New Sun_ in a number of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ways, so much so that once, having momentarily forgotten the name of its</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">hero, I found myself calling him 'Severian'. It may be that Stephenson is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">acknowledging this influence in naming a language (not a planet, as some</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">have claimed) 'Orth'.</span><br>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">_____________</font></div><div><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am a big fan of Anathem, but I just don't see the New Sun parallels/connection -- what specifically do you see as the similarities? I'm intrigued.</font></div>
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