![]() Seveneves blends many aspects of science, especially astrophysics, robotics and bio-engineering into a flawed, but undoubtedly epic, SF narrative. Seveneves reaffirms that tradition, although it would have benefited from more ruthless editing. Stephenson once told me in an interview for The Canberra Times, that he never writes the same book twice. This necessitates some rapid history backfilling, but it does enable Stephenson's scientific imagination to run wild and especially to extrapolate genetically from the original "seven eves". In fact, some are incredibly flawed, if not downright evil".Īfter 560 pages, the narrative takes a dramatic turn, with a long epilogue set 5000 years in the future. Stephenson adds, however, that "not all of these women, though turnout to be totally morally upright. ![]() Women predominate, partly "for biological reasons", with a "DNA sequence stored on a thumb drive". Stephenson focusses instead on the politics and scientific resources needed for a small group to survive on the Cloud Ark evolving from the enlarged international space station. ![]() The eventual deaths of seven billion people largely takes place offstage. ![]()
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