They all look to him when it comes to questions dealing with science beyond their ken. You’ve heard of Bill Nye the science guy, yeah? Well Doob here is Bill Nye for the politicians of the world. It’s told from a number of character viewpoints, but the large majority come from Doc Dubois (Doob) Harris and Dinah Macquarie. It’s told in three parts - almost clinically so - and each part is unique and almost a story of its own. SEVENEVES by Neal Stephenson ( Amazon) is a novel that was a long time in coming, and like so many of his other novels, has a very long story to tell. This one could happen tomorrow, and I think, for the most part, it could all feasibly happen.
A story of very-near Science Fiction that is about an apocalypse that we haven’t read before (e.g., planetary self-destruction, religious fruition).
This one pushed a lot of my buttons, but strained my patience quite a bit, too. Smart, funny, character-centric, inventive, informative - his books, for me, stand tall and somewhat apart from so much of the other writing out there. It’s been a while since I read a Stephenson book, and I was in need of his kind of storytelling.
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