Seveneves
Book description
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.
President Barack Obama's summer reading choice and recently optioned by Ron Howard and IMAGINE to be made into a major motion picture.
What would happen if the world were ending?
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time…
Why read it?
3 authors picked Seveneves as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In Seveneves the crises start coming and never stop coming.
The sudden, inexplicable destruction of the Moon and the resultant catastrophic rain of debris destroys habitability on Earth. A small population of refugees escapes into space to keep the flame of humanity alight.
Naturally, the inhospitality of interplanetary space and conflicting factions of survivors plunges the journey into resource depletion, rampant cancer, attempted coups, and a population bottleneck, but I found that the ending concludes a surprising story of human connection, even when the definition of human has radically changed.
From Ness' list on sci-fi about space missions gone terribly wrong.
The time is the present, the moon explodes, and the people of earth have just a year to figure out a way to escape using current technology. A fascinating deep dive into the limits of what we can accomplish today with current-day engineering if we put the whole world’s mind to it, with loving detail put into explaining orbital mechanics and reproductive biology. But I’m most interested because as the catastrophe causes all of our institutions to start to dissolve, forcing humanity to rebuild them, the novel recapitulates a lot of the themes of trust in institutions across human history…
From Benjamin's list on Neal Stephenson that get the economics right.
This is an intriguing foray into the potential evolution of our own species into many sub-species. We are taken on a journey of evolutionary discovery. I was absorbed in understanding the characteristics of the sub-species Neal Stephenson wove into the story. Whilst very different, in terms of exploring evolutionary offshoots of our own species, Seveneves reminded me of HG Wells’ The Time Machine.
From James' list on to make you think, think and rethink evolution.
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