Anathem : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061474101 : 006147410X : 01 Sep 2009 : Since childhood, Erasmus has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable secular world, until the day that a higher power decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe.
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