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| Original Title: | Seveneves ASIN B00LZWV8JO |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2016), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Bestes ausländisches Werk (2016), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2016), Prometheus Award for Best Novel (2016) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2015), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Novel (2019) |
Neal Stephenson
Kindle Edition | Pages: 880 pages Rating: 4 | 86864 Users | 9955 Reviews
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| Title | : | Seveneves |
| Author | : | Neal Stephenson |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 880 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2015 by William Morrow |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
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Ratings: 4 From 86864 Users | 9955 ReviewsComment On Appertaining To Books Seveneves
DNFI just can't do it anymore. I am 46% through this 880 page monstrosity, and I just cannot read another page. I thought I would give it one more shot tonight, but after reading for 45 minutes and literally having no idea what I just read I think it is time to throw in the towel.I feel like I should like this book. I love space and dystopian (which, I guess this kind of is?) but I should have known better given that I I am hit or miss on sci-fi. And the plot was actually intriguing. I likedGeeky Heroines and Heroes A Wealth of Technical DetailsLet me get this clear up front. Im a Neal Stephenson fan. Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books. I also loved the Baroque Cycle series. Snow Crash, not so much. That said, I was ambivalent (right up until the end) about whether to give this 3 stars or 4. But the last section did it---four stars it is. My ambivalence is because of the very thing that makes Stephensons writing what it is---the plethora of technical details.
I continued my recent SF binge with a look at this mammoth offering from the award-winning writer of speculative fiction. The first sentence sets the scene pretty well: The moon blew up with no warning and for no apparent reason. Soon, the best known television commentator on such issues is proclaiming that the hard rains a-gonna fall. And keep falling. In fact itll rain rocks for thousands of years. Not the best news then.And were off into the realm of the end of the world, as we know it with
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If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Big-Ass Delta VEE: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson When I read the first 50 pages, my first objection was to could the moon have been broken up into so few large pieces. The verisimilitude hangs on the likelihood of meteor bombardment coming down to what the Agent was, and I'm not aware of anything we currently know of that could break apart the moon like that. I had huge problems with this premise right at the beginning of the book.To
From: Neal StephensonTo: William Morrow, PublisherDear Friends,I've got a great idea for a new novel. I've decided to call it "Seveneves", which is a palindrome. In case you didn't know, a "palindrome" is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers. By the way, punctuation prior to the development of printing, was light and haphazard. William Caxton
3.5 stars As the story opens the moon explodes into a number of big chunks for reasons that are unclear, though most likely it was hit by some space object. The shock and awe among Earth's human population is soon exacerbated when scientists announce that the moon chunks will inevitably collide with each other, break up into smaller and smaller pieces, and - in two years time - begin to rain down on the Earth. This 'hard rain' will last five thousand years and destroy the entire surface of the
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