This is fascinating, and I loved this aspect of the book. Neal Stephenson takes advantage of the situation to address all sorts of scientific, moral, and philosophical dilemmas. Seveneves is about that something, that “moon shot” to save a remnant of the human population by putting them in outer space to survive the holocaust of the lunar destruction. Unless something dramatic happens, everyone is going to die. It’s an epic disaster novel (or is it an epic disaster of a novel? More on that later) that pits the human race against nature as the moon explodes and its meteoric remains begin to fall to Earth, setting the atmosphere on fire. The further I got into the Seveneves thought experiment, the more I wanted to like it.
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