![]() Seveneves is about the moon exploding, which sounds like the kind of premise that couldn’t possibly be boring, but somehow this book finds a way. ![]() He’s somewhere between Andy Weir and Joss Whedon, a location otherwise known as the Hack Zone. I can’t say for certain because I didn’t finish the book, but what I did read was enough to tell me that Neal Staphenson is not the sci-fi version of Umberto Eco. ![]() So I was surprised when I cracked open Seveneves, read a few pages and then asked myself “Is the whole thing written like this? Are all of Neal Stephenson’s books written like this?” Something like a sci-fi Umberto Eco, in other words. Snow Crash, the Baroque Cycle, Anathem-these and more have a reputation as being big, dense bricks full of science and cryptography and philosophy. ![]() I’ve never read any of Neal Stephenson’s books before Seveneves, but I’ve been aware of the guy for a long time, always as a titan of sci-fi who writes very intelligent smart-guy books for smart-guy people. ![]()
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