6/29/2023 0 Comments Seveneves book review![]() The fact that Stephenson was as an advisor for the Blue Origins asteroid mining company no doubt helped him write Seveneves. Set on a lifelike Earth humanity only has existing technology to adapt to living in space. While this is a familiar trope made famous by the likes of Battlestar Galactica, there are no starships or warp drives here. Seveneves follows 5,000 years of human history from the feverish race to escape Earth and the difficulties of surviving in space, to the eventual return to the planet that was once home. ![]() ‘What do you expect from the author of Snow Crash?’ fans will say, but those uninitiated should be warned. ![]() Readers of Seveneves may understand this feeling of information overload as they struggle to penetrate the detail-heavy prose of this interstellar epic. Later, one of a few hundred survivors living on a International Space Station worries about a planning meeting, while Earth is a raging fireball below. Rather than listen to his speech, the celebrity scientist stood behind her wonders about the grey streak in the President’s hair. ![]() Unable to process a cataclysm of apocalyptic proportions, it focuses on small, mundane details instead, according to Seveneves.Īfter the moon explodes, the President of the United States breaks the bad news that we’re all doomed. The mind can only absorb so much information. ![]()
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