Stephenson will visit Milwaukee's Boswell Book Company for a ticketed event June 5. With a large, highly differentiated cast of female characters, from a resourceful nanotech engineer to a cunning president of the United States, "Seveneves" easily passes the Bechdel test (and the Vito Russo test, too). In the long near-future section of "Seveneves" (out May 19), Stephenson imagines, in realistic detail, the on-the-fly construction of an ad-hoc space ark with a diverse population of human beings - as well as overlapping chaos and turmoil back on Earth. Then, over more than 850 pages, he takes readers on a fictional journey with imperiled humanity that doesn't stop until a remarkable contact 5,000 years later.Īs readers of "Cryptonomicon," "Quicksilver" and "Reamde" know, Stephenson's long novels of speculative fiction are challenging to summarize because they contain so much. In the first sentence of "Seveneves" (William Morrow), Neal Stephenson blows up the Moon.
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