Seveneves: A Novel

Sprache: English

Erschienen am 6. Juli 2015

ISBN:
978-0-06-219037-6
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Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck.

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hat Seveneves von Neal Stephenson besprochen

Huh...?

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That pretty much sums it up. This book is basically two stories. The first part revolves around nerdy orbital dynamics descriptions with a sprinkle of politics and psychology. It makes sense and is mildly interesting but a bit much. The background research is, as usual for Neil Stephenson, quite impressive. The sorry elements is not the main part of this book. There are a few surprises in the beginning and end of each part. But most of the book is rather straight forward.

All-in-all Seveneves is an interesting series of what-ifs and an elaborate exploration of what these ifs could lead to.

It's a fairly slow paced presentation of a long series of events with a couple of sudden twists at the end of each part. This presents a sudden moment of "huh...?" at those points.