![]() Stephenson will visit Milwaukee's Boswell Book Company for a ticketed event June 5. With a large, highly differentiated cast of female characters, from a resourceful nanotech engineer to a cunning president of the United States, "Seveneves" easily passes the Bechdel test (and the Vito Russo test, too). In the long near-future section of "Seveneves" (out May 19), Stephenson imagines, in realistic detail, the on-the-fly construction of an ad-hoc space ark with a diverse population of human beings - as well as overlapping chaos and turmoil back on Earth. Then, over more than 850 pages, he takes readers on a fictional journey with imperiled humanity that doesn't stop until a remarkable contact 5,000 years later.Īs readers of "Cryptonomicon," "Quicksilver" and "Reamde" know, Stephenson's long novels of speculative fiction are challenging to summarize because they contain so much. ![]() ![]() In the first sentence of "Seveneves" (William Morrow), Neal Stephenson blows up the Moon. ![]()
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