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Anathem by Neal Stephenson
NEAL STEPHENSON's latest novel is a smorgasbord of high adventure, quantum physics and musings on the nature of consciousness.

On the planet Arbre, young Fraa Erasmas is a member of one of the many enclosed communities of intellectuals who are only allowed contact with the rest of the world once every decade or century. This arrangement was set up thousands of years before after a series of unspecified Terrible Events. Back then, theoreticians, computer scientists and practical engineers worked together to produce the fearsome Everything Killers, and now the three groups are kept strictly apart. The theoreticians, or "avout", live in walled "concents" and pursue theoretical research and astronomical observation, while the outer world ebbs and flows around them in waves of civilisation and decadence.

Erasmas's settled life is shattered when access to the concent's observatory is barred and his mentor, Orolo, is banished to the "saecular" world ...