I finished Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Anathem, this evening. This is scheduled to hit the stores on September 9, 2008. Like most of Stephenson’s novels (outside of his first few), it is a mighty tome. It is 890 pages long plus a glossary and several supplements where he unloads some of the math and theory. As I recall, he either started adding these in the Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle. I assume that the theory loads down the narrative a bit too much and he is wisely moving these bits
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