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Re: seveneves

From	Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: seveneves
Date	2015-08-24 10:35 +0200
Organization	Me, Myself and I
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In article <87a8thl2hh.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>,
Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
>Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
>
>> Neal Stephenson's book "Seveneves" is serious stuff, best book I have
>> read for years. I find the logic a bit hard to follow sometimes 
>
>I'm a *great* Stephenson fan.  Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
>(which I tend to think of as one stupendous opus) was/were, at time of
>publication, the best book(s) I'd read in 50 years.  I've read the
>whole four volumes 8 times. It's/They're still in my top ten, maybe
>top five, of all time.  All his other books rate from "pretty good
>yarn" to "really great book", have read them all more than once.
>
>To my great dismay, Seveneves left me cold.  I'll grant that he came
>up with a hitherto unthoughtof apocalypse but the apocalypse half was
>just another, you know, apocalypse story.  The 5,000 years in the
>future half just didn't cohere for me.  If you're really, really keen
>on apocalypse and orbital mechanics, it might be, well, you know,
>okay.  But that's by far the faintest praise I've ever had for
>Stephenson.  Sorry to say.

The best apocalypse novel is still "A canticle for Leibowitz", 
where you get to around chapter three before you realise that this
is around 500 years in the future, and the great fall of civilization
was not that of the Roman Empire, but of ours. Not ~700 AD, rather
~2500 AD.

A very different approach.

-- mrr

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seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-23 17:40 +0000
  Re: seveneves mentificium@gmail.com - 2015-08-23 14:12 -0700
  Re: seveneves Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-24 01:44 -0300
    Re: seveneves Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:35 +0200
      Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 09:26 +0000
        Re: seveneves Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 14:11 +0100
          Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-25 12:42 +0000
            Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-26 11:11 +0100
              Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-26 12:03 +0000
                Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-27 10:09 +0100
                Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-28 11:52 +0100
                Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-28 14:23 +0000
        Re: seveneves Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-24 14:50 -0300
          Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 19:48 +0000
            Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 20:42 +0000
              Re: seveneves Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-25 02:17 -0300
              Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-25 08:54 +0000
      Re: seveneves scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-24 14:07 +0000
        Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 19:31 +0000
          Re: seveneves scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-24 19:54 +0000
      Re: seveneves JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 10:27 -0500
    Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 09:22 +0000
      Re: seveneves "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:22 -0500
        Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-26 07:52 +0000
          Re: seveneves Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-26 09:30 +0100
            Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-26 10:12 +0000
              Re: seveneves Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-26 12:42 +0100
                Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-26 12:15 +0000
                Re: seveneves lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-26 16:52 +0200
                Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                Re: seveneves "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 05:21 +1000
              Re: seveneves Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 13:59 +0100
                Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-26 13:20 +0000
                Re: seveneves Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-26 14:54 +0100
                Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-26 14:37 +0000
                Re: seveneves Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-26 16:08 +0000
          Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-26 07:10 -0700
            Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-26 07:54 -0700
            Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-26 08:10 -0700
              Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-26 17:15 +0000
                Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-26 11:57 -0700
                Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-26 12:25 -0700
            Re: seveneves Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-27 16:05 -0700
    Re: seveneves "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:18 -0500
      Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:09 -0400
        Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-27 08:42 +0100
          Re: seveneves Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 09:18 +0000
            Re: seveneves simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-08-27 14:30 +0100
              Re: seveneves Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2015-08-27 23:39 -0300
                Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-28 11:45 -0400
                Re: seveneves Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-28 12:15 -0400
                Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-28 13:09 -0400
          Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:20 +0000
            Re: seveneves Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-28 20:41 -0700
              Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-29 09:32 -0400
    Re: seveneves Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-08-26 16:26 +0000
  Re: seveneves Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:55 -0400

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