Anathem
Book on CD - 2008 Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Stephenson, Neal 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Locations
Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Stephenson, Neal
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch
Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
---|---|---|---|
Westgate Adult A/V 6-week checkout |
Adult BOCD / Fiction / Science Fiction / Stephenson, Neal | 6-week checkout | On Shelf |
Compact discs.
Read by William Dufris, Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, and the author.
Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Great submitted by Chris82 on July 30, 2011, 9:09pm This is a very very long book on tape and it does take a while to get into the book and figure out what the characters are saying but if you stick with it you won't be disappointed. Its a fantastic book.
PUBLISHED
North Kingstown, R.I. : [distributed by] BBC Audiobooks America, p2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 28 sound discs (34 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780792756392
0792756398
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dufris, William.
Wyman, Oliver.
Gilbert, Tavia.
SUBJECTS
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Disasters -- Fiction.
Monasteries -- Fiction.
Philosophy -- Fiction.
Mathematics -- Fiction.
Science fiction.