I MENTIONED S.M. STIRLING’S The Scourge of God a while back, when I read the advance copy. I liked it, and I note it starts shipping tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m a bit over halfway through Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and I’m liking it a lot. The setting is different from Stephenson’s other books, but the quality is just as high. Plus it retains his trademark geek-intellectual humor.