Anathem

I recently picked up Neal Stephenson's latest work, Anathem. It is a fascinating piece of literature, not only because of the science fiction in it, but particularly because NS's novels are very well-researched. He covers topics from a wide variety of fields, spanning geometry, rhetorics, metaphysics, cosmology, and sociology among others. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fictional work that does a great job at meta-inspection of the knowledge of Western society.