The detailed application of advanced technology is what I love best about Stephenson’s books. The result was a less than compelling storyline filled with characters you cared nothing about. Stephenson tried to tie everything back together, but the gap-filling backstory was too minimal to be satisfying, and a new level of fantastical science fiction reenergized the implausibility meter. The eager anticipation as to what happens next was lost. The emotional connections made to the main characters were lost. The jump from Part 2 to Part 3 was simply too big. By the time Part 2 ended, I was at the edge of my seat simply amazed by what had taken place. As the implausible became plausible, the main characters came to life as they struggled to make this happen. He has a no holds barred writing style, and the storyline was filled with a continuous “Science the shit out of this” attitude made famous by “The Martian”. While I first thought the premise was implausible, Stephenson starting working the technology and I gradually became entranced.

Let me start by saying that up until Part 3, Seveneves was pegging my Top 10 books of all-time. 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. 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.īut the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain.įive 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.Ī 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. What would happen if the world were ending?Ī catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic - a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

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