Sci-Fi & Speculative
by Neal Stephenson
Fraa Erasmas has lived cloistered in a monastery of math and philosophy since childhood, isolated from the violent secular world. When a celestial threat emerges, he and other scholars are summoned by fearful authorities to confront an impending catastrophe. Stephenson crafts an intricate far-future Earth where ancient knowledge and cosmic mystery collide in an intellectually ambitious epic exploring the nature of consciousness, reality, and civilization.
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