Seveneves

Description

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction President Barack Obama's summer reading choice THE EARTH WAS A TICKING TIME BOMB. To ensure the survival they had to look beyond its atmosphere. So they became pioneers. Five thousand years later and their progeny form seven distinct races and they must journey to an alien: Earth. A magnificent, visionary work of speculative fiction from a true visionary that will dazzle you with its depth, psychology and awesome imagination.

NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of: Fall or, Dodge in Hell; The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland); Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line.

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