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Seveneves

di Neal Stephenson

Altri autori: Ben Hawker (Researcher), Paul Tobin (Researcher)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic??a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

What would happen if the world were ending?

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and 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 both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilli… (altro)

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    Anathem di Neal Stephenson (Mind_Booster_Noori)
  2. 40
    Red Mars di Kim Stanley Robinson (psybre)
    psybre: Each book contains detailed methods and thinking that goes into solving space-colonization and space disaster issues. They also infuse the issues with politics.
  3. 20
    The Forge of God di Greg Bear (JGolomb)
    JGolomb: All life on Earth is ending, and humanity runs for the stars
  4. 20
    L'uomo di Marte di Andy Weir (hoddybook)
    hoddybook: Engineering solutions in stressful conditions.
  5. 10
    Gioco Mortale di Neal Stephenson (bookfitz)
  6. 22
    Burattinai nel cosmo di Larry Niven (JGolomb)
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    Schismatrix Plus di Bruce Sterling (szarka)
    szarka: Seveneves and Sterling's Shapers-Mechanists stories are both concerned with what happens to humanity over long spans of time.
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    Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia di George Zebrowski (tetrachromat)
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    Lucifer's Hammer di Larry Niven (Cecrow)
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    The Calculating Stars di Mary Robinette Kowal (g33kgrrl)
    g33kgrrl: When disaster hits and earth becomes uninhabitable, what happens next? Kowal's book is set in the 1950s, but should still satisfy the same itch that Seveneves does.
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    The End of the World Is Flat di Simon Edge (themulhern)
    themulhern: Thinly disguised contemporary figures appear in both books (with modifications, of course).
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    Aurora di Kim Stanley Robinson (JGolomb)
    JGolomb: Earth looks to space to save humankind. Seveneves is much better.
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    Dalla Terra alla Luna di Jules Verne (Mind_Booster_Noori)
    Mind_Booster_Noori: The engineering effort to put something beyond our atmosphere is something that made me think of one book while reading the other.
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    Internet ci rende stupidi? Come la rete sta cambiando il nostro cervello di Nicholas Carr (themulhern)
    themulhern: Both books are about social media and connectedness turning people into bad decision makers.
  15. 03
    Trilogia della fondazione di Isaac Asimov (BeckyJG)
    BeckyJG: Both are narratives with a big, optimistic vision of the future of humanity.
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    The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings di J. R. R. Tolkien (JGolomb)
    JGolomb: While not fantasy, Stephenson's work does an amazing job of building Middle-Earth-like mythology.
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When a novel has the premise that everyone on Earth is going to die in two years, it's strange to feel that it's somehow timely. Yet I certainly thought it was apt for current affairs when reading the rapid reaction, or sometimes failure to react well, of the characters in this book when confronted with an all consuming crisis. At least for someone who loves detailed descriptions of propellant use, the most exciting and heartening parts of the novel are the technical challenges in keeping people alive. The most disconcerting are the political dynamics that threaten to upend the entire project. At a time when I'd love to think that we can exert some collective, coordinated action to address pressing problems, it's a reminder that there's a lot of potential and a lot of challenges remaining.

As a story, Seveneves benefits from tremendous imagination and beautiful description of the unfamiliar environments and the ways that characters navigate them. The characters themselves are sometimes hard to follow (there are many!) but it's compelling enough to keep you page-turning. I think if there was one weakness, it'd be that the neatness is just a bit overdone. By the end, it feels like everything tied together in a way that could be amazing, but feels a little bit forced. I take it as a reminder that while plotlines can resolve themselves in an elegant way in fiction, it rarely will in reality. ( )
  Zedseayou | Jan 30, 2024 |
This has some really interesting ideas: moon exploded by mysterious 'Agent'; various ways of surviving that inside, over and under the earth's surface; preparations for apocalypse. But they get lost in some dull and far too long technical exposition, thinly-drawn characters, and a fragmented (no lunar pun intended!) plot with an indifferent ending (so maybe there's a sequel on the way? Nineeves?). This needed an editor with sharp scissors and firm feedback to the author. ( )
  breathslow | Jan 27, 2024 |
Back in high school, I was entranced by [b:Lucifer's Hammer|218467|Lucifer's Hammer|Larry Niven|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388268115s/218467.jpg|1842237], a disaster novel in which intrepid people save remnants of humanity through engineering. Seveneves is very much that kind of novel. The book is split into two halves: a near-future setting in which the disaster happens, and a far-future setting in which we see how decisions made in the first half have come to play out.
Most of the science and engineering woven throughout it is solid. But I found that the situation at the end of the first half required a big suspension of disbelief on my part in order to set up the second half. YMMV. Nonetheless, I very much enjoyed the large-cast storytelling that Stephenson revels in. The characters are vivid and engaging, varied in their motivations and relationships. While it doesn't grab me the way [b:Snow Crash|830|Snow Crash|Neal Stephenson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1424472532s/830.jpg|493634] and [b:The Diamond Age|827|The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer|Neal Stephenson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388180931s/827.jpg|2181158] did, it is still a worthy read. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
I had a hard time finishing this book. I enjoyed the first two acts and I couldn't put it down. The third part was incredibly boring. ( )
  devilhoo | Jan 3, 2024 |
Another review said that this book is like "an engineer doing an anthropologist's job," and I concur. It's all very imaginative but the whole thing suffers from the blinkered rationality of hard sci-fi, wherein the exact number of rivets in a space pod is more important then the psyche of the astronaut. This is not to say that Stephenson doesn't try to capture the awe and magnitude of the apocalypse, seven women recreating the human race through gene splicing is an impressive new creation myth for example it's just that he fails as often as he succeeds. ( )
  ethorwitz | Jan 3, 2024 |
"Seveneves" is as hard as "hard science fiction" gets: cool bits of science and speculation about the future of technology, space and culture, with a plot and dialogue bolted on to make it more enjoyable to follow. That said, Stephenson's speculation is fascinating. He's got a lot to say about the physics of whips, glider transportation, military robotics, and everything else that can be crammed into his premise.
 
"None of this makes Seveneves the kind of hard SF in which you see a writer dutifully populating his universe with characters who have feelings even though you can tell he just wants to write about giant space gadgets. Stephenson’s people are vivid and terrified: they bicker and cry and perform heroic deeds."
aggiunto da bookfitz | modificaThe Guardian, Steven Poole (May 13, 2015)
 
"No slim fables or nerdy novellas for Stephenson (Anathem, 2008, etc.): his visions are epic, and he requires whole worlds—and, in this case, solar systems—to accommodate them."
aggiunto da bookfitz | modificaKirkus Reviews (Mar 15, 2015)
 
"Stephenson’s remarkable novel is deceptively complex, a disaster story and transhumanism tale that serves as the delivery mechanism for a series of technical and sociological visions."
aggiunto da bookfitz | modificaPublishers Weekly (Mar 9, 2015)
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Stephenson, Nealautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Hawker, BenResearcherautore secondariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Tobin, PaulResearcherautore secondariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Brooke, PeterNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Damron, WillNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Galamb, ZoltánTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Gräbener-Müller, JulianeTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Johnson, AdamProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Knowles, JonathanImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Kowal, Mary RobinetteNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic??a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

What would happen if the world were ending?

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and 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 both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilli

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