Seveneves

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Kindle

English language

Published May 15, 2016 by The Borough Press.

ASIN:
B00LZWV8JO
(3 reviews)

When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere...

Five thousand years later, the survivors' progeny embark on another audacious journey into the unknown, to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.

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reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Storygraph'

This book had an incredible number of ideas, and in fact seems to be two books in one! Unfortunately, the second half of the book (book 2 as far as I'm concerned) ends without resolving anything and raises even more questions and mysteries than the whole rest of the book combined. I have no idea if there is going to be a follow-up book or something, but I'm very confused why this was not only one book but was structured in the way that it was.

That glaring issue aside, the story was very intriguing and complicated and stressful until book 2, at which point it became a faster-paced adventure story. It's a bit long-winded and difficult to get through, but it's a very nice specimen of hard science fiction that I found very interesting.

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