Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson, Neal Stephenson

Paperback, 872 pages

English language

Published May 16, 2016 by The Borough Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-813254-5
OCLC Number:: 951120433

(269 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.

5 editions

Libbum reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

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.

turmacar reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

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.

Kathrin Passig reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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3 stars

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.

DaveCline reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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Anonymole reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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5 stars

inga-lovinde reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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3 stars

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 …

Enno reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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3 stars

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.

bondolo reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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1 star

Abandoned midway through part 2. The first Stephenson book I have given up on. This book needed to be a lot shorter.

Paudie reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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5 stars

Absolutely loved this book. It is a very big book, but it kept me gripped the whole way through. I love the ideas explored.

Manzabar reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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2 stars

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.

cargide reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

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 …

Andrew Crawford reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

I ended up taking a break about 2/3rds to the way through. There is a big stretch of people dying horribly in space in the middle (you know, not to mention the near extinction of the human race) that was fairly anxiety provoking. The last third leveled back out, though. Glad I went back and finished it.

Evans Tucker reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

The part where he skips 5000 years or whatever is kind of annoying.

bbbhltz reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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4 stars

Seveneves is a thoroughly enjoyable book not only about the future, but also the past. I was amazed at how Stephenson jumped from hard sci-fi to a quick sociological, or historical, anecdote and even managed a little political commentary. I had to stop occasionally to talk to my fiancée about it and I even woke her up a few times when I would exclaim, a little too loudly, 'I knew it!'

This was the first Stephenson book that I read. I hope to get around to [book:Snow Crash|830] very shortly!

Marino reviewed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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1 star

Exceso de detalles técnicos que hacen que a veces parezca que estés leyendo un manual de instrucciones técnicas excesivamente detalladas. Se pierde en detalles de construcción y técnicos que no aportan nada a la historia, como si fuese necesario dar un sustento técnico real, demostrable y construible a los inventos y evoluciones.

Algún personaje excesivamente plano. Julia llega a parecer una caricatura del personaje malo de una película infantil.

En resumen, más adornos que historia.