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A review by lalawoman416
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
4.0
I'm glad the author decided to do one large book instead of a trilogy. There's nothing that irritates me more than getting into a good book and then having to wait months/years for the next part. And to be honest, if it had been a trilogy, I'd be just as disappointed with the third novel as I generally am with most trilogies.
So it starts with the moon exploding and humans having two years to die (not a spoiler really since this is all told in the first couple chapters). It's post-apocalyptical writing at its finest. It's basically the movie 2012 in that the leaders decide to build an ark - but this one in the sky to avoid the "hard rain" that's going to wipe out the earth's habitability. The second part is the survival of the "arkies." This is a very interesting part, politically. It's less about the science of survival in as much as the politics of survival. And part three? Essentially a an epilogue gone on too long. It really would have been enough to let us know that things went well enough for the survival of the human race. Instead, it basically is a story about how nothing changes but the time.
This is a hard science book. In fact, there are times where it's almost too much science because JUST as you're getting into the plot/storyline, the author diverts into a lengthy discussion about some detail that, while interesting, kills the flow. There were times that my eyes glazed over because I couldn't care less about a detail about a specific robot or ark habitat. But overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this books.
So it starts with the moon exploding and humans having two years to die (not a spoiler really since this is all told in the first couple chapters). It's post-apocalyptical writing at its finest. It's basically the movie 2012 in that the leaders decide to build an ark - but this one in the sky to avoid the "hard rain" that's going to wipe out the earth's habitability. The second part is the survival of the "arkies." This is a very interesting part, politically. It's less about the science of survival in as much as the politics of survival. And part three? Essentially a an epilogue gone on too long. It really would have been enough to let us know that things went well enough for the survival of the human race. Instead, it basically is a story about how nothing changes but the time.
This is a hard science book. In fact, there are times where it's almost too much science because JUST as you're getting into the plot/storyline, the author diverts into a lengthy discussion about some detail that, while interesting, kills the flow. There were times that my eyes glazed over because I couldn't care less about a detail about a specific robot or ark habitat. But overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this books.