Seveneves: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00WNBHNWW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I like Neal Stephenson But Sometimes Too Much Is Too Much" according to Don Tyler. I like Neal Stephenson. I really do. I particularly enjoyed Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, and even had a grudging respect for Anathem, generally reviled among his hard-core fans. But I hit the wall with Seveneves. Let me explain why, because I think many reviewers either blindly bought into it, or put it down as garbage. There is a reason for both.Seveneves is an 880 page novel, ostensibly about a very near-future catastrophe where the world must work together in a short amount of time to build out an orbiting habitat . Amazon Customer said I do recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys reading science fiction. I do recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys reading science fiction with a blend of hard science and cultural development. The review below avoids specifics about the plot to avoid giving much away that readers should be allowed to discover for themselves.I enjoyed this novel quite a bit. There are points at which the narrative pace slows and I became a bit impatient, but it did pick back up to satisfying conclusions in the two separate sections of the novel. As science fiction, it portrays disturbing possibilities for . Liked the dystopian aspect Kathleen Gallegos Okay-I am giving it 5 stars in the end. But I did struggle with this tome. So much technical information and I have a hard time visualizing sci-fi types of things, he might have been describing lego towers for all it impacted me. BUT on the other hand, I do hate it when authors skip over major details. Not really much prose in this book, not a lot of character development either. But I did like the dystopian aspect and to see how it played out over thousands of years.I would say probably a better version of this same book
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