These first two parts told a story with aīeginning and an end. Parts deal with an astronomical catastrophe (never explained) thatĭestroys the moon and renders the earth uninhabitable,Īnd with the efforts of humans to establish a space habitat that will Seveneves is in three parts of roughly equal size. News: Stephenson has learned how to write a good 600-page book. I was interested to see how that bore out in Seveneves. He is saying, you have to turn him up to 2,700 pages. Stephenson at 600 pages is a semi-coherent rambler to really get what Idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes.”īut Stephenson, I think, is one of very few exceptions who does better Impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an Luis Borges, who said “Writing long books is a laborious and Usually, I agree with the opinion of Jorge But it seems to me now that the real problem with hisĮarlier books is that they were not long enough. People have been complaining for years that Stephenson's books are There are a lot of things I like about his writing.

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