Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers. 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. I've decided to call it 'Seveneves', which is a palindrome. There were a lot of interesting cultural directions the story could have gone, but it felt like they'd sent an engineer to do an anthropologist's job. Let's just say.I should have asked for Ursula Le Guin to write the last part. Being thrust into a position of power or responsibility and having to figure it outĪnd it was exactly what I wanted! At first. Discovering the hidden workings of something People living proscribed lives, eg military, religious orders, royalty People who are very good at what they do, because they work hard at it The story builds from a sort of contrived situation or scenario eg 'Quakers in space!' People working together toward a common goal/to solve a problem Something grand being destroyed in an epic fashion Okay, so the first two thirds of this was shaping up to be pretty much my favorite book ever, like if someone had called me up and said, 'okay, we will get any author you name, and they will write exactly the book you would like to read, just give us a list of what you want.'Īnd then I gave them a list something like this and was like, NEAL STEPHENSON PLEASE: 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. 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. įive thousand years later, their progeny-seven distinct races now three billion strong-embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown. 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. What would happen if the world were ending?Ī catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb.

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