Swanwick and others

Michael Thayer · 15 Jun 2014, 02:10 · from 2014-June.txt.gz

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From: michael.o.thayer at gmail.com (Michael Thayer)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:10:14 -0400
Subject: (urth) Swanwick and others
Message-ID: <CAHS3GWfST8vtaOcgKow3dZu8vz52L6Cj_TTd8DYwL_dREciZvA at mail.gmail.com>

Andrew Mason>  Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_  is reminiscent of _New Sun_ in
a number of
ways, so much so that once, having momentarily forgotten the name of its
hero, I found myself calling him 'Severian'. It may be that Stephenson is
acknowledging this influence in naming a language (not a planet, as some
have claimed) 'Orth'.
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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.
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