![]() ![]() It feels confidently written, but it could all be confident mumbo-jumbo as far as I know. I'm not going to make any claims about the legitimacy of the science here, because I don't know enough to judge. Not "what does Protagonist do next?”, but what might happen, scientifically speaking, and what could humanity achieve using science as a response. It takes a Big Idea - what if the moon exploded? - and follows what might happen next. If you like a lot of theory in your books, this really delivers. ![]() It's like Victor Hugo writing science fiction, putting in large explanations of waste disposal on the ISS instead of in Paris's sewers. Seveneves has some interesting characters and a really interesting premise, but it's also full of diversions. Too much science, not enough fiction.Ībout 100 pages into Seveneves, I had the thought that I'd rather read a summary of the book than the actual book, and that thought only got more true as I continued. I got about 70% of the way through, which isn't bad on a nearly 900-page book. ![]() Seveneves is the first Hugo nominee this year to defeat me. ![]()
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