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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.

©2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited (P)2015 Neal Stephenson Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Women's Fiction Space Station

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Critic reviews

"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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If you could sum up Seveneves in three words, what would they be?

Its a very detailled, believable, possibility

What does Peter Brooke bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I like his voice but not sure about some of the accents which were a bit distracting.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Couldn't put it down and if I could have listened to it in one sitting I would have. 32 and a half hours seemed like a long time when I started but got so wrapped up in the story, was actually surprised when it finished.

Any additional comments?

Really hope that there is a follow up or parallel stories published as it all ended a bit abruptly and I need to know what happened.

Believed this could be possible

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Exceptional story, well written, well narrated, more people need to listen to this book!! never left my mind for a moment while i was waiting to get back to it.

Amazing

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Inpressive in its scale, and for its adherance to physics but just a bit bland compared to Stephenson's other books.

Totally subjective but I found the contrivances of the plot highly unbelievable. The Earth exploding, fine. Some of the swings in the plot, and character motivations, immersion ruining.

Also the writing and narration style were kinda bland and monotone.

On the upside, you get a lot of book for one credit...

Cost effective but kinda average

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I couldn't imagine reading the book and getting the same amount of enjoyment that was provided by Peter Brooke. Neal Stephenson's story was an epic tale stemming from a simple idea of the moon breaking up. Would anyone survive? Along the way I learnt about celestial mechanics, survival in space, genetics and the struggle for survival of the human race. Or should I say races? A joy to experience from beginning to end.

Brilliant. I wanted more even at the end.

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Having read several of this author's novels on Audible I knew it was going to be wordy and suffer from what Stephen King describes as 'bloat'. However in this blockbuster there were very few longueurs that were not of interest. It felt like a mash up of Stephen Baxter, Neal Stephenson and a dash of HG Wells. The narrator's choice of accents was a bit strange at times and there were the usual issues with pronunciation but it is the story that counts. As one reviewer remarked it is almost 3 stories in one and I suppose could have been produced as a trilogy but the whole thing blends satisfactorily. Trying to imagine deep time is pretty challenging. Neal Stephenson tackles it by assuming that digital information could be carried forward uncorrupted into the future. Let us hope so in a world where the deep fake is an ever present threat to true facts!

Fascinating story

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Should not be one book. It shifts very dramatically to a new set of characters.

2 Books Squashed Into 1

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fantastic attention to detail. Good characters. Well constructed plot. Enjoyable read for any sci fi fan.

great sci fi

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...the likes of which even God has never seen... unless he got an advance copy for the publishers...

A depth and breadth of technical storytelling ..

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If you could sum up Seveneves in three words, what would they be?

Long detailed and exciting

What did you like best about this story?

Fully developed characters

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No far too long

Any additional comments?

Author finishes his story too suddenly

Good as always

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This is two books really. The first is brilliant, the second is a space filler. The sheer breadth of the human tragedy in part 1 is only matched by Stephenson's mastery of human drama. I was gripped from page one. Part two was something of an extended epilogue and never really caught my imagination in the same way. Read it anyway, because part 1 is worth the price of the ticket.

Almost but not quite a masterpiece

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