He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant. 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. 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. Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. Well-written and compelling, it offers a convincing account of one of the many scenarios in which Earth might end only to be reborn millennia later from seeds sown by the seven Eves of the novel’s title and others uncontrolled by them. 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. Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson, is a substantial piece of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction. The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.
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