Results tagged “sense of wonder”

It was with no small excitement that I read, in a recent issue of Wired, an article
about Neal Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, which is in stores today. And though the details about the novel were tantalizing enough, my imagination soon caught fire from something else—and I felt perhaps something like the dizzying opening of the mind that Neal Stephenson himself might have felt when he first heard about about the Clock of the Long Now.

The Clock of the Long Now is just that—a clock. But it inspired Neal to write Anathem. This is, in a strange way, exactly what this clock—which will take sixty years and tens of millions of dollars to construct—was designed to do.

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I edited Greg Bear’s City at the End of Time several months ago, but when the book finally went on sale last week I flipped through it to savor again some of my favorite passages. I love, love, love a book that leaves me feeling smarter than when I’d started reading it, and City at the End of Time definitely did that for me.

What, exactly, is a sense of wonder?