
by NealStephenson (Author)
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.
President Barack Obama's summer reading choice and recently optioned by Ron Howard and IMAGINE to be made into a major motion picture.
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. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. 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.
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. He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 880
Edition: 1
Publisher: The Borough Press
Published: 21 May 2015
ISBN 10: 0008132518
ISBN 13: 9780008132514
Praise for Seveneves:
A Financial Times Summer read
`The scope of Seveneves is breathtaking, the suspense tremendous, the execution faultless' Financial Times Books of the Year So Far...
`Remarkable' Publishers Weekly
Praise for Neal Stephenson:
`Genius' Time
`He makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin' The New York Times
`Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century'
William Gibson
`[Stephenson is] the hacker Hemingway' Newsweek
Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Zodiac and the iconic Snow Crash, named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels. He lives in Seattle, Washington.