Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

May 2015 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction

President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice

THE EARTH WAS A TICKING TIME BOMB.

To ensure the survival they had to look beyond its atmosphere.

So they became pioneers.

Five thousand years later and their progeny form seven distinct races and they must journey to an alien: Earth.

A magnificent, visionary work of speculative fiction from a true visionary that will dazzle you with its depth, psychology and awesome imagination.

Ratings and reviews

It went from mostly hard-science epic (which I enjoyed a lot) into full blown sci-fi (which I barely tolerated). I felt invested in the narrative which kept me pushing through to the end but some parts with excessive details felt like too much of a chore. Overall I'm glad to have read it.

This book is fast and full of technical jargon that is explained many times. With all the research that went into this book the easiest one to check wasn't done because people keep misquoting it. They likened the it to The Ark on earth where the animals went in two by two. In fact the animals went in seven at a time. It was only the unclean animals that went in two by two. I liked the first section of the book but I got a little lost when it jumped thousands of years to the future. I didn't know who they were talking about. Whether it be the people from the space station, the people from the cave or the people from the submarine. Why did they have pictures at the end when I had already got a picture in my mind which wasn't like the picture at all.

A three part cataclysm book, with wildly different tones, about the exodus to, then living in space, and the aftermath of prolonged habitation above earth. A fantastic read. I only wish there was more, but not for lack of length of the tale. Thank you, Neal.

About the author

Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Zodiac and the iconic Snow Crash, named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington.