
Seveneves
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Buy Now for $43.99
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Narrated by:
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Peter Brooke
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By:
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Neal Stephenson
About this listen
President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice
What would happen if the world were ending?
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. But unforeseen dangers threaten the 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, to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is at once extraordinary and eerily recognizable. He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
©2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited (P)2015 Neal StephensonCritic Reviews
"He makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin." ( The New York Times)
"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." (William Gibson)
"[Stephenson is] the hacker Hemingway." ( Newsweek)
A stretch too far?
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Gripping and structured
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32 hours you will never get back
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Brilliant
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Epic sci-fi.
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however
it is a very very technically described book from start to finish, this drags out some scenes you wish were fast paced and exciting.
I felt the second part was overly long and the third faltered to a end.
I enjoyed it but feel looking back it was a little dull and overly technically described.
wordy but likeable plot
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Whilst it is a great book, and would make an excellent tv series, it’s often overly descriptive. At some points, it’s about orbital mechanics, at other points it’s about Delta-V’s and speed and later about geology, geography and overly precise descriptions of people.
If your in to fine details where the story moves along slowly, then this is a top read.
But if you want brisk sci-fi, this is not it.
An epic tale of humanity and the fight to survive
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While the second half takes a completely different direction from the first it is not unwelcome. If you want just a standard sci fi novel there's an endless number of "good" stories out there. I didn't agree with everything the author assumed or speculated of the future but the ideas were interesting and entertaining.
The narrator does a fantastic job, there is nothing negative to say of the production of the audiobook itself.
Epic story explores maybe too many themes
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awesome
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Awesome story
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