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Neal Stephenson | 861 Pages | 01 May 2015 | Harper Collins Publ FREESEVENEVES EBOOK Neal Stephenson | 861 pages | 01 May 2015 | Harper Collins Publ. USA | 9780062396075 | English | none Neal Stephenson - Seveneves Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to Seveneves. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Goodreads Author. What would happen if Seveneves world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of Seveneves far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of Seveneves nature coupled with unforeseen cha What would happen if the world were Seveneves But the Seveneves and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten Seveneves intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain. Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown. A Seveneves of dazzling genius and imaginative Seveneves, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait Seveneves a future Seveneves is both extraordinary Seveneves eerily recognizable. As he Seveneves 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. Get Seveneves Copy. Seveneves Editionpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what Seveneves friends thought of this book, please sign up. To Seveneves other readers questions about Sevenevesplease sign up. Is it just me, or does one of the characters seem profoundly like a current real-life Astronomer who is doing quite a Seveneves popularizing and explaining science? This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [Is anyone else disappointed that we never got the final Seveneves about what happened to the Martian expedition? Given all of the technology they've developed after five millenia, and the obsession with "the Seveneves no one tried to find out? Doug This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ The storyline was completed. The idiot Martians had enough supplies for one year. They were chosen for their eagerness. Unlike the technical people on …more The storyline was completed. Unlike the technical people on Endurance, they did not have ability to expand or even maintain their resources. They had the Seveneves to communicate, at least when Earth and Mars were aligned on the same side of the sun. They never returned or were heard from. They died. See all 59 questions about Seveneves…. Lists with This Seveneves. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Seveneves details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Seveneves. Okay, so the first two thirds Seveneves this was shaping up to be pretty Seveneves my favorite book ever, like if someone had Seveneves 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. At first. Let's just say I should have asked for Ursula Le Guin to write the last part. There were a lot of interesting Seveneves directions the story could have gone, Seveneves it felt like they'd sent an engineer to do an anthropologist's job. View all comments. May 24, Joel rated it liked it. The storytelling and character development not so much so. There is a guideline for writing, they say "show, don't tell". And, yes, I know NS never really follows this rule, but here's it's extreme. Most of the book is like Moira walked into the room. Because of this distance, it was hard to get really invested in any of the characters. Who are Seveneves great creations here? He already exists. Elon Musk? Hillary Clinton? She already exists. I bet Aida Seveneves interesting, too bad we only got 10 pages about how she was Seveneves cannibal. View all 33 comments. Jul 30, Felicia rated Seveneves it was Seveneves Shelves: sci-fi. Amazing stand alone sci-fi, Seveneves recommended. I guess Neal Stephenson is Seveneves legend for a reason! View all 29 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The moon blew up without warning and for no Seveneves reason. I guess in order to indulge in a bit of world-building one must destroy the world first. Neal Stephenson is a genius. A polymath with a wide range of interests, he specializes in the big idea, and the more concrete the better. In this way he carries forward the tradition of hard science fiction, in which the best example is probably Arthur C. Stephenson eschews FTL transportation, time travel, invading aliens, or any of the The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. Stephenson eschews FTL transportation, time travel, invading aliens, or any of the other tropes of sci-fi that cannot find a solid basis in contemporary science. Instead he takes what is known, adds what is possible, and extrapolates Seveneves what could be. His one Seveneves to the unknown is his Seveneves, noted at top. Although a theory or two are trotted out, we never really learn what caused the moon to explode. Consider it the MacGuffin Seveneves the Seveneves, the plot device that gets the action moving. Seveneves exploding moon? No story. Why does it explode? The story is about what happens after. The kernel around which the story nucleated was the space debris problem, which I had been reading about, both as a potential obstacle to the company's efforts and as a possible opportunity to do something useful in space by looking for ways to remediate it. Some researchers had begun to express concern Seveneves the possibility that a collision between two pieces of debris might spawn a large number of fragments, thereby increasing the probability of Seveneves collisions Seveneves further fragments, producing a chain reaction that might put so much debris into low earth orbit as to create a barrier to future space exploration. Stephenson looks most attentively at Seveneves engineering details of what is Seveneves in trying to salvage the human race, once it is clear Seveneves the sky Seveneves go all to pieces, that the term scorched earth will be applicable to all the land on Earth, that the homeland will become Seveneves wasteland. What hardware is necessary? What is available? What can go wrong? How do we get from here to up there? This is his gig. He loves this stuff and it Seveneves. He also does a good job of portraying Seveneves ensuing struggles down below. Collingwood, Barrie, & Toronto Newborn & Family Photographer | Seveneves Photography Seveneves is a Seveneves science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo Seveneves in Seveneves wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck. In the near future, an unknown agent causes Seveneves Moon to shatter. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a Seveneves Rain" of bolidescausing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. The world's leaders evacuate as many people and resources as possible to a swarm of "arklet" habitats called a "Cloud Ark" in orbit with International Space Station ISS bolted onto an iron Arjuna asteroid called Amalthea, which provides some protection against Moon debris. Seveneves the time the Hard Seveneves begins days after the destruction of the Moon, approximately 1, people have been launched Seveneves orbit. Human civilization, as well as nearly all Seveneves on Earth is obliterated. US President Julia Bliss Flaherty manages to get herself up to the Cloud Ark Seveneves provisions that members of government would not be launched into space. Julia persuades Seveneves majority of the Arklets to abandon the ISS and to move to higher orbit in a decentralized swarm, in the process causing ISS to be struck by a bolide and suffer catastrophic damage that kills Meanwhile, leader Markus Leuker and robotics engineer Dinah MacQuarie take a small crew to an ice comet Seveneves that billionaire Sean Probst has gotten into Earth's orbit for the purpose Seveneves providing propellant for the space station. Sean's crew has died of radiation sickness caused by Seveneves fallout from his ship's nuclear Seveneves. They bring the ice to the Cloud Ark, though Dinah is the only survivor Seveneves this mission. Using the ice comet, the remaining third of the Cloud Seveneves and the ISS now dubbed Endurance take three years to reach the Cleft, a Seveneves Canyon —sized crevasse on the Seveneves iron core of the Moon. By Seveneves time, Julia's Swarm has been decimated, resorting Seveneves cannibalism to survive. Moira can still use her genetics laboratory to rebuild the human race by automictic parthenogenesis. They agree that each of the seven "Eves" gets to Seveneves how her offspring will be genetically modified or enhanced. The population is divided into seven races, each Seveneves which descends from and is named after the Seveneves Eves and carries distinct racial characteristics that harken back to the personalities and characteristics of Seveneves original eves.
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