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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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Started strong, created, and then kinda just petered out. Ending was a bit droll. Some of the themes were questionable, and a few times hard line ideologies were unnecessarily pushed. While a few characters were interesting, most were pretty much predictable and one sided wooden personalities. For such a long book, a bit more character development, but he spent too much time stroking his own ego.

Worth a listen, but only if you ran out of things on your bucket-list.

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This book has no ending. It changes direction wildly half way through and then fails to deliver a full story in the new setting.

Half a book

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I really enjoyed the first 2 thirds and if the book had of ended after that it would have been amazing. The last third was forced and un-necessary.

A book of 3 thirds, that should have been 2

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What did you like best about this story?

The scope and scale of this book is incredible, the world building is some of the best Ive read. To write about the destruction of the world and humanity's subsequent fight for survival is an undertaking that only some authors can consider, let alone pull off. Seveneves succeeds where so many fail; originality, inventiveness, drama, and well.. just brilliant ideas combine to create an epic story which I loved.

How could the performance have been better?

Im sorry to vent such negativity about Peter Brooke, its really not in my nature but I feel I need to lodge my complaints.
1. Peter Brooke SHOULD NEVER do accents. Most were pretty bad, Rhys's accent was the worst I've ever heard, at best it was a guffaw moment at worst it was to the detriment of the whole narrative.
2. POV is pronounced 'P.O.V.'
3. 'Rhondda' is pronounced 'ron-th-aa'

Epic sci fi, awe inspiring world building

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this is more like two stories, one of which is unfinished. I loved parts of it and the ideas are great, but too much time is spent exposing in detail how things work. enjoyed it but would have enjoyed it more if it had been ten hours shorter. and if it hadn't felt like it just tailed off at the end.

too long and detailed.

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