Anathem

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ANATHEM COULD NOT HAVE been written had the following not come first:

the Millennium Clock project being carried out by Danny Hillis and his collaborators at the Long Now Foundation, including Stewart Brand and Alexander Rose.

a philosophical lineage that can be traced from Thales through Plato, Leibniz, Kant, Godel, and Husserl.

the Orion project of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The author is, therefore, indebted to many more people than can comfortably be listed on a traditional acknowledgments page. The premise of the story, as well as the simple fact that it is a work of fiction, rule out the use of footnotes. This is unfortunate in a way, since many readers will presumably wish to know where the ideas being discussed by the characters actually originated, and how to learn more about them. Accordingly, detailed acknowledgments, complete with links to other resources, may be found at www.nealstephenson.com/anathemacknowledgments.

About the Author

NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of seven previous novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

www.nealstephenson.com

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