anathem

Reminds me of how in Anathem by Neal Stephenson, their word for the equivalent of the Internet is the Reticulum, which etymologically comes from Reticule.

Reminds me quite a bit of Neal Stephenson's Anathem - the concept of bogons, introduced in one of the later chapters.

Neal Stephenson's Anathem is fairly mind blowing if read in the correct mindset.

By the end of Anathem all of the strange names for things become second nature and you understand from the context what their meaning is.

Could you cite any of these bits of reused Anathem dialogue?

I'm a huge fan of Anathem and Reamde is a very different style.

Also, I was occasionally distracted at the beginning when snippets of dialog from Anathem were reused in the form of exposition in Seveneves.

I like Anathem better, but Seveneves is interesting and worth my while.

I'm trying to break through the initial wall in Anathem presently.

I'm a long time Stephenson fan, have read everything he wrote multiple times (excepting Seveneves for the moment), and Anathem is my most favourite of his works.

I recommend reading Stephenson's Anathem first, however.

I feel like Snow Crash is slightly more representative, though I guess his range is pretty huge at this point; the difference between, say, Big U and Anathem is cavernous.

“Inter-universal Geometer" - This seems to refer to the Geometers from Neal Stephenson's Anathem[0], or is at least inspired by the same concept.

I've read Anathem countless times, and didn't notice anything other than "plane-change maneuvers are expensive" or something to that effect, which I think is more of a truism than reused dialogue.

I started reading Anathem, which I know is seen as his "seminal work" but it's been a slow start for me: all the made-up vocabulary combined with strange names makes it a very disjointed reading experience.

If I recall correctly, he gives up on endings altogether in Anathem, with the narrator literally writing something along the lines of "there's much more left to tell, but this is enough." Seveneves skirts the issue by basically slapping together two rather disjoint stories, ending one "book" by abruptly beginning another.

In your opinion, how was Reamde compared to works like Anathem, Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon?

Anathem does take a little while to get into thanks to the language, but it's great!

Stephenson had an Authors @Google talk in 2008 [1], which was mostly about his book Anathem.