Anathema: Neil Stevenson

A new masterpiece of intellectual prose from the author of the “cryptonomycon” and “baroque cycle”.
The novel, which Times was called magnificent, large -scale work, giving food and mind and imagination.
The world in which something happened – and the earth, which is now called Arb, returned to the Middle Ages. Now, scientists, who once brought humanity terrible evil, become monks, and science itself is completely separated from everyday life. Fraa Erasmas – a young monk -an incident from the monastery (now they are called concentes) of the luminant Edhara – the refuge of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists, protected from temptations and the atrocities of the external, secular world – with thick monastery walls. But once every ten years, Aperts come – the day when monks -scientists are allowed to go out of the gates of the monastery, and curious laity to go inside. And once a day Apert comes trouble. The trouble that puts the world on the brink of disaster. The trouble that will be possible to prevent only by the joint efforts of instances and nation …

Author
Stevenson Nile
Editor
Maygurova I.
Translator
Dobrokhotova-Maikova Ekaterina Mikhailovna
Publisher
AST, 2012
Series
Alternative. Fantastic
Genre
Classical foreign prose