Seveneves

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Peter Brooke

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction

President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice

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.

Critic reviews

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

great sci fi

like two books in one. If you liked Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars you Will love this one.

Earth to space to Earth. What an adventure

An amazing story with a very interesting look at society. Splitting traits into races is something that I have never read before keeping me hooked.

Not his best...

I normally love the detail that the author puts into his stories, but this time it's just too much.
My ears did the aural equivalent of my eyes glazing over. It's technical - very, very technical.
I mostly listen to my books in the car and with this one I found myself blanking out large portions.
There are interesting bits, however, so it isn't a complete washout.
Oh, and some of the accents are way off! It would have been better that the narrator didn't attempt some of them.

Eine Story die genau so gut 3 Bücher füllen könnte

Sagenhaft gutes Buch, das in der Gegenwart beginnt, und in einem genialen SciFi Setting weitergeführt wird. Ich dachte mindestens 4x, dass die Geschichte nun abgeschlossen sei... Nur um dann nochmal richtig Fahrt aufzunehmen und noch besser zu werden. Erfrischend anderes SciFi, auf sehr plausibler Basis, mit hervorragend trockenem Humor!

Excellent story, but the reader should just read

Loved the story, but the reader voice acted all characters, which was really annoying especially because some of his accents are not very convincing.