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Every single time a character we haven't heard in 10 minutes comes back into focus, the listener is jolted with a reminder of how bad that accent rendition is. Why do this? Why bother? Let the listener's mind fill in the accent. Cadence and intonation? By all means be expressive in the delivery of dialogue.

But do not attempt to do the English accent of a Indian born tech guy Not unless you have the chops of Mel Blanc or Day Lewis. Where it is not outright offensive, it is distracting. In particular, Neil Stephenson's female characters are notoriously tough.

It's even explicitly said that Dinah was seen as a tom-boy. So why adopt this whiny voice 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. I really liked the premise. Expected things to happen but nothing really did But I feel that there could have been more of a story. And then it just ends First I need to mention that sample does not give a rightful impression of the overall performance.

I got a really bad first impression of the narrator, but after listened to the entire book, I think the performance of the narrator was absolutely ok. The story itself is fantastic, and I love how it just starts with a bang I still have some unanswered questions at the end, but that is probably to be expected of such an epic story.

I highly recommend this. One of my all time favourite reads. Get stuck in and geek out with Stephenson in unexpected ways. Anyone is allowed to have an opinion about a book they have read or listened to. An personal opinion. All of his books are astonishing feats of writing. Review or judge is not something they can even begin to do.

This was epic and detailed in a similar vein to Cryptonomicon, the last Neal Stephenson book I listened to. Similar to that it's the type of book I just couldn't stop once started. The level of detail and explanation is amazing, the space science, orbital mechanics and other info like the discussion of space superstructures.

The progress of time and changes over which characters are the focus was also done well. There was a couple of times that the explanation of a persons back story happened before even having an idea of why we should care. Simply having a line about them being a TV reporter or some such would have helped a little. Still it was enjoyable and fun. I loved it. Thank you Neal and all those who made this.

Struggled to finish, note for the reader if you can't do accents don't even try. The scope and ambition of this novel are staggering, and I can't think of another author who could hope pull something like this off successfully.

I'm not convinced Stephenson has, but there's still much for fans to like. The good: Stephenson's usual elements are all present and correct: physics, engineering, code breaking and a smattering of martial arts.

The plot moves along at a decent clip for the most part, and the large cast is handled pretty well. The bad: The pacing is a little uneven, and the plot losses impetus in the final third. More fat could have been trimmed in some parts too. That large cast and expansive plot don't leave too much time for character development either with a few notable exceptions.

I'm less torn about Peter Brooke's performance. He took on a mammoth task with this one, and I'm afraid he fell short for me. He does competently for the most part, but a few of the accents were like nails on a chalkboard. If I read this again it'll be the paper version. This is three completely different books abutted. The first is a really good disaster story full of tech and plot and pace. The second meanders through dumb political shenanigans in space but there is still good stuff to keep you going.

The third is completely disconnected from what went before, hard to follow, and uninteresting. Get it for a spare credit but when the narrator says, " years later," do what the author should have and stop there. This book has no ending. It changes direction wildly half way through and then fails to deliver a full story in the new setting. Started strong, created, and then kinda just petered out.

Ending was a bit droll. Some of the themes were questionable, and a few times hard line ideologies were unnecessarily pushed.

While a few characters were interesting, most were pretty much predictable and one sided wooden personalities. For such a long book, a bit more character development, but he spent too much time stroking his own ego. Worth a listen, but only if you ran out of things on your bucket-list. This is one of those 'biggest story ever told' novels, end of the world is nigh and what you we going to do about it.

Ends up thousands of years hence And yes, for such a huge listen, it feels rushed. I was sad when it ended even though the damned thing took weeks to get through.

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This happens in the future, so most technology seems familiar. Just how do we build a viable swarm in space with the modern technology we currently have? I romance like this. Seveneves Audiobook Free. When it comes to sex, it is mentioned yet he does not go into detail or create some sort of male fantasy like some sci-fi writers like to do. Among the actually wonderful features of this book is how it has two components: the very first part that takes place in the future, and the 2nd part that happens years in the future.

The future he has actually produced is gorgeous. It reveals us what we can produce if we try. Okay-I am providing it 5 celebrities in the long run. I completely understand the criticism some people have of him when they say he is long winded and spends too much time writing about things that do not move the story along science information in this book , but I love all of it.

The best part of this book was thinking about how peoples and cultures get along with one another and the incredibly neat idea of what it might look like if the human race had to start again. There were many fascinating parts of this book that kept me up thinking about it long after I put the book down each night.

High recommended. I really enjoyed the story and this one would have been a five star book if the author had not gone down some technology sinkholes several times throughout the story. I really enjoyed the characters portrayed within and hope that the author continues with this universe with some additional tales within the years in the future timeline.

Recommended for all hard sci-fi near future fans. Humanity's response to the planet's surface becoming inhabitable occupies the first two thirds of the book. Stephenson has boned up a LOT on orbital mechanics and some of this material could have benefited from a better editor. Alternatives to going into space - to avoid being cooked - are mostly an afterthought. The last one third of the book - dealing with an entirely different landscape and only tangentially related to the space events in the first two thirds of the book - is not very compelling.

Overall, definitely worth a read for the sheer scale of imagination. Like all of Stephenson's books But - again, like all of his books Great premise. Slightly slow build up, but became a real page turner about halfway through once the end of the world nears, and some villains are introduced. At times it does become slightly difficult to suspend disbelief.

Not about the idea of the moon randomly blowing up, but the idea that society would remain basically orderly despite the imminent end of the world. Why would anyone keep working at their crappy job if the world was about to end? Also, found it curious why, in such a science-oriented book, there were some relevant scientific details Stephenson omitted. In particular, why he barely touched on the importance of the moon for the evolution of life on Earth.

And the effect the disappearance of the Moon would have on the tilt of the Earth. Gripping and also inspired a lot of reflection and introspection. Reminded me a lot of some of the adventurousness of Jules Verne books I loved as a child.

Good exploration of "big" stuff -- end of the world and society as we know it etc etc -- but even more enticing dives into human nature and relationships and families and how those are affected throughout, and how the people and their choices and communication successes and failures alter the course of events.

I was reluctant to read this book for a while based on the description -- expected it to be very depressing. There are certainly dark moments and themes, but overall I found it made me feel hope more than despair. Also, smart and strong women!! Classic NS, ovelrly technical in places but a great speculative imagination creating an orbital world after the feasible destruction of the planet.

He also did a great jpob in speculating the types of humans who would make it through. It would have been better if that part had been extracted as another book in its own right. Someone who didn't consider what it takes to raise children while rebuilding civilization in an error-intolerant environment.

Really really stupid premise. Not all that interesting either. I started it.. I couldn't really get in to the story.. I was going to give up after around pages.. A lot happens in this novel- the moon blows up, the Earth as we know it is destroyed, mankind survives despite nearly impossible odds, and the Earth is remade.

But, most of the action in this story takes place off screen, in between the segments of long, drawn-out history lessons and technical jargon that make up most of the book. This book felt like world-building gone horribly wrong, where the author did months and years of world building, and rather than use this framework to tell a story within it, he simply stuffed all the raw world building he'd done into a rough semblance of a novel. All the events that in other authors' hands might have felt exciting and engaging, and all the characters that might have been fascinating, or easy to relate to, fell flat, being completely overshadowed by all the details of engineering developments and fictional science factoids.

The human side of the story was underdeveloped, and the characters' motivations were often inconsistent and unconvincing. This is an engrossing concept and development of a catastrophic scenario affecting life on earth. Those who enjoy hard sci-fi will not be disappointed by the depth of detail and background Neal Stephenson brings to the story.

It is immersive and pulls you in to the human elements and conflicts when dealing with survival. The first two thirds of the book keep your attention. The character development tended to compete with the story telling and the requisite understanding of the apocalyptic scenario faced. The last third of the book ended with a whimper rather than the bang at the start. All in all, a decent read if you like Neal Stephenson and enjoy hard Sci-Fi. Good concept, flowed fairly well, however i got the impression that at times the desire to have scientific content detracted from the narrative.

It became very confusing and would need an engineering degree at the least to understand in parts. Oh, Neal Stephenson. I keep trying to read you, expecting something different, and I keep feeling unsatisfied at the end. First, a bit of context. The Stephenson I've read in the past has presented a bit of a pattern to me. He manages some of the best world-building I have ever read. His understanding of society and the way it reacts to new circumstances or technology is inspired, bordering on prescient.

But, and here is the part that distances me, he cannot seem to translate the way he writes about people down to the level of a person. That is, his individual characters are broad-stroke caricatures, or else puppets whose strings are clearly pulled by the requirements of the narrative.

I did not find myself truly invested in any of them -- while on a macro level, I was thoroughly invested in the fate of the human race as a whole. The result was an odd dichotomy of experience.

I found that I did not thoroughly enjoy any single part of the book, and yet it has stuck with me. The subjects it raised have come up in conversations, especially late-night philosophical discussions over a nice glass of wine. It is the epitome of a book that I am glad to have read, but would not ordinarily have chosen to actually read.

In terms of recommendation, it all depends on how you like your sci-fi. If you're interested in big, broad strokes of characters, detailed population world building, and some nitty-gritty science in your sci-fi, then you'll love it. If you are looking for a personal story, people you care about, and an outcome that makes the sci-fi real, then you may want to skim or move on.

I enjoyed the first two parts more than the third. I needed more exposition to understand what was clearly a thoroughly-developed and different-from-our-own world. This is quite an amazing hard scifi epic that spans a 5, year history between an apocalyptic destruction of nearly all life on earth, through the survival of a chunk of humanity in space after being whittled down to seven 1 women and the final return to earth and its re-terraforming.

It is a very long novel, full of the kind of detail expected from good hard scifi.