I'm lucky my life isn't reviewed by Adam Roberts

[andrewducker]

Because, although Julie just shouted into the room "Andy, there is an interaction I need to have with you." it's clearly dialogue that no real person would ever utter.

(I've just been reading this review of Anathem, wherein he makes exactly that complaint about a line of dialogue that sounds exactly like things I've heard geeks say down the pub.)

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[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

He is after all that most dreaded of creatures: a professor in English literature.

But seriously, Roberts has a ...somewhat different... idea of what good science fiction should be like than Anathem delivers. I can see the merit in his review, even if I did love the novel.

And there is of course a case to be made that Stephenson went a bit overboard here and the book lost some of the traditional qualities of the novel. It is somewhat of an 1200 page infodump...