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Seveneves

By: Neal Stephenson
Narrated by: Peter Brooke
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The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction

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.

 Classics Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Science Fiction Women's Fiction Survival
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Critic Reviews

Praise for Seveneves:

A Financial Times Summer read

‘The scope of Seveneves is breathtaking, the suspense tremendous, the execution faultless’ Financial Times Books of the Year So Far…

‘Remarkable’ Publishers Weekly

Praise for Neal Stephenson:

‘Genius’ Time

‘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
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An interesting premise but a somewhat tedious and lack lustre result in my opinion. The story also felt unbalanced and in need of a good edit.

Add to that no particularly likeable characters and I would say this is an average listening experience.

If you know the author and like his work I'm sure you will enjoy this. If you don't, like me, you may be disappointed.

Narration is competent.

Disappointing

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I chose to ignore other reviews about the narration and I enjoyed the story until the 5000 year time jump.
The first 70-80% of the book was wonderfully described and detailed with an interesting story and great characters.
The last part just seemed like a long description of technical details with only a skeleton of story. I really thought I must have missed something important because the story line seemed to assume that the reader/listener had background knowledge that would make the story understandable.
I felt let down after having devoted so much time to this book.

So disappointing

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Wow. This book blew me away. Such amazing sci- fi. Neil Stephenson writes with pressing context and impressive furore, that it is a integral novel of our times.

Incredible read! Amazing sci fi !

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Full of suspense and substance. Plenty of food for thought, the kind of read that has you ruminating throughout your day, well after putting it down. Great sub culture references, sci fi content and political discourse.

Wonderful listening

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Very imaginative story that takes you across time. The beginning is quite jarring and strange. I loved the first two thirds of the book, while the final third was not quite as awesome. Some of the voices too a while for me to get into but I got used to it after an hour or so.

Great!

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