Seveneves

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Kindle

English language

Published May 15, 2016 by The Borough Press.

ASIN:
B00LZWV8JO
(320 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 'Goodreads'

можливо, це дуже суб'єктивно, свого роду читацька ностальгія — але наразі ніщо від ніла стефенсона на перевершує «зодіака». «сім єв» (чи як там колись перекладуть цей роман) — непогана фантастика, і років зо тридцять тому я би окропом пі%яв, читаючи це. але зараз — ні: місцями надто нерівно, наче авторові ось тут було цікаво фантазувати, а ось там набридло і він накидав нашвидкоруч тижні, тоді роки, тоді тисячоліття, в інших місцях — наївно, наче класичні (анти)утопії… але загалом — читати можна.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

None

3.5 stars

4 stars for Parts I & II
3 stars for Part III

[No unmarked spoilers, but some discussion of the book's structure ahead]

My biggest criticism of this book was that it was unbalanced in terms of:

Pacing - The second arc (Part III) was like an underdeveloped parasitic twin attached to the much healthier, independent first arc (I & II). Stephenson's trademark infodumps stop being fascinating science lessons and instead seem like Scotch tape being used to hold the plot together. It would have been much better if the book ended after Part II and Stephenson had instead built Part III into a full-fledged sequel. I think it also could have been interesting to have the second arc interwoven with the first instead, in a sort of "how we got here" way.

Scienfic rigor - One of my favorite things about the first arc was the emphasis …

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

3.5 stars

4 stars for Parts I & II
3 stars for Part III

[No unmarked spoilers, but some discussion of the book's structure ahead]

My biggest criticism of this book was that it was unbalanced in terms of:

Pacing - The second arc (Part III) was like an underdeveloped parasitic twin attached to the much healthier, independent first arc (I & II). Stephenson's trademark infodumps stop being fascinating science lessons and instead seem like Scotch tape being used to hold the plot together. It would have been much better if the book ended after Part II and Stephenson had instead built Part III into a full-fledged sequel. I think it also could have been interesting to have the second arc interwoven with the first instead, in a sort of "how we got here" way.

Scienfic rigor - One of my favorite things about the first arc was the emphasis …

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'GoodReads'

Quite enjoyed the technical aspects of this one. I think the universe it has generated would be a unique one to explore further in spin off books. As Stephenson states in his afterward: not too much of this stuff is new, although the amount of disciplines together at once here is something that doesn't come to pass in many stories in this genre.

Some of the more popular reviews on good reads see this as a failing, and would have preferred a different lense for the stories final section. To me, this would have been a shift too strong in a different direction. Granted, I would love to have an anthropologists eye cast on this universe - so please, write that story! But I'm happy that it wasn't here. I started with the hard technicalities of this world and remain satisfied with a technical conclusion.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

Not dissimilar from The Martian, but for the everyone on Earth instead of Mark Watney/Matt Damon. If you liked the scene from Apollo 13 where they threw a bunch of stuff on a table and said, "how do we work with just this to not die" you'll probably like this.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

In der Mitte hatte ich schon kapituliert und fand 400 Seiten Lötkolbengerede mehr als genug, aber nach ein paar Tagen Pause ging es dann doch noch. Die Menschheit kauft also auch noch in 5000 Jahren Papierbücher und findet Social Media verkehrt. Der Anfang war gut, ich hätte es nur fertigbringen müssen, nach der Leseprobe aufzuhören.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'GoodReads'

First part: 3/5
Second part: 5/5
Third part: 3/5

Seveneves is a nice hard SF, with emphasis on "hard" and "science" parts, not on "fiction" one.
Storytelling and character development are totally neglected (except for the second part).
People behavior is hardly plausible. E.g. would anyone believe that the entire Earth population accepts its fate peacefully in the first part, and that there are no disturbances at all besides that minor Venezuela one, two years later? Or that, in a thousand years of living together, different races wouldn't mix, and wouldn't dissolve in each other? (It is suggested that "old racism" is dead - then why there are only sporadic cases of interracial marriages?) Certain scientific ideas are hardly plausible as well.
And the author himself acknowledges that the third part is more of a tech show than a coherent sensible story.

It's hard to give this book even four …

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

this could have easily been two books, and the first one of them would have gotten a five star rating from me. The initial story is gripping and well-paced, with characters we grow to like, but the "epilogue" tells a completely different story, with new and weaker characters that goes on for two thirds of the book.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

This novel tells an amazing story. I really would have liked to give it a better rating than I did. Unfortunately the novel comes across more like two books smashed together. First 2/3 or so of the novel is a disaster epic set roughly in the modern day. This portion is the novel's strongest, though it does suffer from excessive amounts of info-dumping. While the remainder of the novel is set ~5,000 years later and is a weird anthropology/political thriller This portion might have worked better as a separate book and fleshed out a bit more.

reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Seveneves' on 'Goodreads'

Hay que empezar por el principio: Parece que Stephenson sea incapaz de hacer un libro corto, aunque para eso coja lo que podrían haber sido fácilmente 3 distintos y los junte en uno, que es lo que pasa aquí, o lo que pasó en Anatema. Esto sería un problema si no fuera porque cada una de las 3 partes tiene la suficiente diferencia en personalidad y estilo para que no te canses de leerlo.

Sobre la historia, se basa en la destrucción de la Luna, y como consecuencia, la destrucción de toda la vida en la tierra. A partir de ahí, narra los intentos de la humanidad de preservar todo lo posible de cara a una futura vuelta a la superficie. Hasta aquí bien, ciencia ficción con un nivel tecnológico cercano y fácilmente asumible, pero en la tercera parte es donde llega el choque: pasamos a 5000 años en el …

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