Seveneves
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Seveneves
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
|---|---|
| Published | 2015 |
| Pages | 861 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Neal Stephenson’s novel in which the Moon comes apart, the fragments will sterilise the Earth’s surface within two years, and humanity improvises an orbital ark against the deadline — two thirds of it a procedural about hard engineering and governing a few hundred people who cannot leave, before it jumps five thousand years to see what that bottleneck produced. |
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, A tier (“very good books”), the most recent of the five Stephenson works they name — and the one on the list that most resembles an incident review: a small population, a hard limit, and decisions whose consequences compound for millennia.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Neal Stephenson — the author.
- Anathem — the other late Stephenson the list names.
- Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon — the earlier three, already in the wiki.
- Engineering — the first two thirds are an engineering-under-deadline novel.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
- a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.