http://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061474096
There is a nice little videoclip with Neal on the page.
Anathem (Hardcover) by Neal Stephenson (Author) # Hardcover: 928 pages # Publisher: William Morrow (September 9, 2008) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0061474096 # ISBN-13: 978-0061474095 # Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 2 inches
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1843549158/
Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of “Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon”.Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable “saecular” world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown.
Paperback (it seems to be a large print edition):
# Paperback: 1088 pages # Language English # ISBN-10: 006166815X # ISBN-13: 978-0061668159 # Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm
http://grettacook.livejournal.com/46696.html
Q: What are you working on right now and when will it come out? A: He's writing a science fiction novel unrelated to Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle. It's set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It's really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit, just like the pirates kept people engaged in the Baroque books. He's nearly finished writing it, and if he doesn't finish by the end of the calendar year he'll have to give some money back. If everything proceeds according to schedule, it should be available in stores in about a year.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/55058-stephenson-jumps-ship-for-atlantic.html
Stephenson jumps ship for Atlantic Cryptonomicon author Neal Stephenson has moved from Heinemann to Atlantic Books to be reunited with former editor Ravi Mirchandani. Mirchandani, who became Atlantic's editor-in-chief last year, bought UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada rights in Neal Stephenson's new novel, Anathem, from the Sayle Literary Agency. Mirchandani said: "Anathem manages to remind the reader of H G Wells, Umberto Eco and Mervyn Peake and yet be entirely and gloriously itself. I am entirely delighted Stephenson will be joining us at Atlantic."