guest post by mikl-em This Tuesday (Sept. 9) San Francisco will be the site of the book launch event for Anathem the long-awaited new novel by Neal Stephenson. The above video was directed by Brady Hall, a Seattle filmmaker who has done a series of “Book Films” for Harper Collins (publisher of Anathem). The video is intriguing, if a little odd, like a mix between the fight scenes from Romeo & Juliet and Westside Story ...

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