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Finished it last night, and I have to agree that it was basically two thirds of a real good book, then one third of what might have been a cool separate book. Instead it comes across as half-baked and mostly full of exposition, with a tiny conflict and resolution thrown on at the end. It's not like he can't do world building well, Anathema was really good. But the back third of Seveneves is like if the plot of Anathema was hastily resolved the second they left the concent. Also I still have no clue what any of the poo poo orbiting the planet looks like, the pictures in the kindle edition aren't great. That's probably more due to me having a poo poo brain for that stuff though.
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The plot would work pretty well as a setup for an Alpha Centauri style colony management game, come to think of it. Stephenson's
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I was always kind of uncomfortable with the end of Diamond Age where the protagonist is raped by Chinese (I think) soldiers, and apparently that all works out because nanites? Or something? It's been a while. I mean it wasn't written in a creepy way or anything. it just seemed a weird thing to visit on that character. Weirder than all the Drummer stuff earlier on, which maybe says more about me than the book.
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I hope it goes better than his sword game kickstarter, at least.
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I think people do remember it, but mainly as a highly visible kickstarter fuckup.
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