Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Attention Mike Caprio , Lucas McCauslin and other space-heads.

Attention Mike Caprio , Lucas McCauslin  and other space-heads.

You all should really be reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.  I'm only about halfway through it, but it's pretty awesome.

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  1. What sort of awesome? I think off and on I should read more Stephenson (more than Snow Crash and Diamond Age).

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  2. So, page one, they blow up the moon.  Now there's a shotgun program to evacuate enough people/stuff into space to survive the impending apocalypse and somehow propagate humanity.  Lots of fairly hard science on display, but the personal/emotional plots also get their fair share of time.

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  3. bwah ha ha blowing up the moon is awesome

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  4. Also one of the characters is basically Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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  5. 2.5 out of 32 hours down. It's great so far. Fun. Very.

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  6. Blue Gargantua If you mean Doc in my head he's Neil deGrasse Tyson. ;-)  There's also the Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos hybrid who does his own thing.

    I'm about 85% done according to my Kindle.  The first part was pretty intense.  HUGE SHIT HAPPENS - and that's just the setup for the rest of the story.  The actual blowing up of the moon is practically a throw away, it is just the first domino to fall to trigger the rest.

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