Anathem Event details
September 9th, 02008 by Alexander RoseTickets and pre-signed books are now sold out for the Anathem book launch event on September 9th, 02008 in San Francisco. The evening will include a reading by Neal Stephenson, a followup conversation with Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand, and a short live concert of the music inspired by the book. There will even be a martial arts demonstration of Shovel-Fu from the the book.
As time allows, Neal has agreed to do some inscriptions after the reading.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, program begins promptly at 7pm
There will be one line for general admission and one line for Long Now Members, I would recommend arriving as early as possible to get in line for good seats.
Venue: The Regency 1320 Van Ness @ Sutter, San Francisco, CA 94109
Not in SF or didn’t get tickets? You can watch the event live on the web at http://www.longnow.org/anathem, with streaming donated by Streamguys, and filming sponsored by Fora.tv. The video will also be available on Fora.tv starting the following day September 10th.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am
Gah. I won’t be in town. Have fun.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Everything about this idea sounds great. But, I only see one problem. From my experience for thinking about the long-term of projects in my life I began to relieze that the further you think to the future the more impatient I become about wanting to arrive at the designation. Because the longer you look forward the more the task seems to overwhelming. Maybe apart of the organization was set up to try to break time down so people would not try to take on everything at once. My thinking is that you could still do this by finding away to reward the people who are around the monument in someone. I got this idea from chairlie where he said “Have Fun.” There’s nothing like waiting for something fun in the short-term when working on the long-term. Good luck with the project.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am
[…] will occur at 9:30am at CERN which I believe will be about 1:30am as we clean up after the Anathem Event. We will be sure to open a bottle of champagne and have a toast. The world has been a lot of fun […]
September 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Stewart, I love you, man, but somebody really has to explain to you what “no spoilers” means. Here’s a hint: it does not mean “while grinning and giggling to yourself, refer in very thinly veiled abstractions to specific plot events in the third act.”
Other than that, thanks for a fun evening.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Linky so I can give you my money for a CD, please? :D