Seveneves

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That´s, what I´ve read so far, the closest, first hard sci-fi, first with some and then mainly space opera, Stephenson has written, because he usually tends to stay on devastated, dystopian Earth. There are, of course, lengths, and long passages without much action, but in contrast to some of other of Stephensons´ works with much philosophizing and info dumping, a better character implementation helps to prevent losing control over the storyline.

A state-of-the-art genetics lab is part of the plan just for this reason. Later used to create the seven races of humanity. Earth That Was: The breakup of the Moon and subsequent bolide bombardment sterilized the surface of the Earth and nearly extinguished all life on the planet. As the story concludes, humanity is only just in the beginning stages of "Ter Re Forming" the planet. Famed In-Story: Everyone from the first two parts of the book are heroes of "The Epic," in the final part, The Epic serving as half-documentary, half-Bible for the Spacer civilization. Evolutionary Stasis: Averted. Five thousand years in the future, humans have evolved to live underwater, underground and on the moon and are drastically different from contemporary humanity.Disability Superpower: Sonar Taxlaw says that one of the factors in the decision to make her a "cyc" was her autism. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . The Diggers live in a much more dogmatic, tradition-driven society, but also don't appear to worship any gods.

A billionaire named Sean Probst, Dinah’s boss, realizes the Cloud Ark will need a source of water for its inhabitants to drink and to continue propelling the space station and preventing it from falling out of orbit. He starts a personal mission to extract ice from a comet, Greg’s Skeleton. He uses a nuclear reactor to power the mission and to heat the ice into steam. This is a Summary & Analysis of Seveneves. Neal Stephenson’s science fiction thriller, depicts the end of the Earth through the destruction of the Moon by an unknown Agent and the attempts to preserve humanity through a multi-millennial gap between times when the surface of the planet will be inhabitable. The preservation efforts soon bog down in political entanglements, both from the doomed world and from within the populations who are meant to carry humanity through thousands of years in space to a planned return to Earth. When, at last, humanity makes to return to the surface of Earth, they find that other populations, not entirely friendly, await them, having endured their own privations across the millennia. New Media Are Evil: the harm to the Swarm caused by Spacebook is enough to make social media taboo among the spacers.Technology Porn: Well over 50% of the narrative is dedicated to describing the science and technology that allows humanity to get into, survive and move around in space. The Pingers are the most alien-looking of the three races, being seemingly amphibious dolphin people that continuously evolved to live underwater. Lost Technology: The Spacers' mastery of chip-building and wireless technology is inferior to modern-day Humanity's. This is partly because computer chips built with smaller transistors are more susceptible to being destroyed by cosmic rays, and partly because the Spacers view modern-day Humanity's volume of exposure to media and social media as "Tav's Mistake," blaming it, in part, for the tensions that caused the Break between the Swarm and the Endurance. On the other hand, they are further along in robotics and virtual reality technology.