He observed: "Some researchers had begun to express concern over the possibility that a collision between two pieces of debris might spawn a large number of fragments, thereby increasing the probability of further collisions and further fragments, producing a chain reaction that might put so much debris into low Earth orbit as to create a barrier to future space exploration. This is the basic premise of Seveneves, a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson. Endurance was no longer a ship but a building. The *science* and world-building is awesome. One, the sociologist Luisa, has reached menopause, and the remaining seven (Dinah, Ivy, Ada, Tekla, Camila, Moira, and Julia) come to be known as the Seven Eves. If each Eve and her offspring were physically separated, this might make sense. Popular African-American celebrity scientist Doc Dubois is, Commercial spaceflight billionaire Sean Probst is Elon Musk, Teenaged activist and target of an assassination attempt Camila is Malala Yousafzai, Space exploration company Arjuna Expeditions is, Tech blogger and singularity theorist Tavistock Prowse is Cory Doctorow. The questionable section is added not as characterization but as polemic. One character sees a recording of one of the Eves and notes that common artistic depictions give her more idealized features than the real deal had. Scientists, politicians, Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck. "Doc" Hu Noah forms a "Seven" with one member from each race to investigate mysterious people who have been sighted on Earth. He and millions of others throughout the Americas witness the same chilling sight: a greater-than-moon-sized cloud which, after the dust settles, turns red. The result is an astonishing portrait of the human future, a future only Neal Stephenson could have imagined. DMCA, read books online for free without registration. Izzy is mostly water, but probably has quite a few other elements mixed in. "[12], The Initiative for Interstellar Studies published a review in their quarterly online magazine focusing on the book's use of orbital dynamics as one of the main technology themes forming the backdrop of the book.[13]. They have several options for plastic without dragging an oil field along with them. The descendants 5,000 years in the future in the. Review: Neal Stephenson's 'Seveneves' is moonstruck by nerdiness. Is there any in-universe explanation which would justify the extended racial separation of the Seveneve's bloodlines? There are a couple of places where they mention how, after the Hard Rain started to abate, they replenished the oceans by altering the orbits of ice comets. Otherwise, this whole story, while great, makes absolutely no sense. Like I said, I'm still reading the book, so I don't know if my hypothesis can hold up, or not. He assumed it was a dust cloud thrown up by a meteor strike. This was also driving me crazy. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Consumable resources in Seveneves [spoilers]. Get help and learn more about the design. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. They bring the ice to the Cloud Ark, though MacQuarie is the only survivor of this mission. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology . on the Ring Habitat are Aritaics, a subrace of Adans, almost universally allied with the Red. In-Universe: most of the Spacers are named after the important people, places and events from The Epic, and especially lives of their Eves. They had scrubbed the place down with bleach and made the beds with clean sheets in the hopes that none of them would be occupied for a long time. By clicking Post Your Answer, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy. The mishmash of techno-mystical ideation that had grown out of that one blog post was unreadable and incomprehensible to Luisa or to anyone else who read it after the fact, with a clear mind, but it seemed to have offered hope and comfort to many terrified young people trapped in arklets. Endurance weighed about as much as a couple of semi-trailer rigs. A second group holds a "Dump and Run" perspectivejettison most of the attached asteroid (Amalthea), and robotically hollow out the remainder into a protective human nest. This doesn't really seem a question? By the time they had brought her to rest and welded her down, the rest of Endurance had been quiet for a long time. The one Swarm had thus fissioned into two smaller ones, neither of which was as viable, and thereby worsened the same problems that had led to the split in the first place. But short of locking her up in an arklet, there was nothing they could do about that save keep an eye on her. After so much death, division, and brutal hardship, those remaining on the Ark rechristen it as Endurance. Was Galileo expecting to see so many stars? What would happen if the world were ending? The Eye itself constantly moves around the Ring Habitat, acting as a form of transport. But they never had to use them. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. In such a scenario, wouldn't the Eves's grandchildren be getting it on constantly? It would be interesting to hear from a geneticist. So what *is* the Latin word for chocolate? After the contraceptives ran out, promoting abstinence became the only non-radical way of achieving that. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. The storytelling and character development not so much so. Tropes used: Abnormal Ammo: The Spacers of 5,000 years in the future do not use guns. Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange! Planned Maintenance scheduled March 2nd, 2023 at 01:00 AM UTC (March 1st, Latest Blog Post: Jacks Bad Movies Black Adam (2022), Chain of events in second act of "Seveneves". Why does the impeller of torque converter sit behind the turbine? Plot [ edit] 2015 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 2 3 4 [ ] [ ] [ ] Only about half of the modules were still pressurized. When Endurance reaches the safety of the Cleft, there are only eight female survivors, only seven of whom (Dinah, Ivy, Ada, Tekla, Camila, Moira, and Julia) are able to bear children. 1 title per month from Audible's entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. Suffering from brain damage, blindness, and psychosis, he struggles to find answers in an ever changing reality. I was under the impression that each of the Seven is purebred from their Eve, not that they have dominant racial characteristics. The seven Eve's descendants are mating with each other all the time, but a baby will always randomly come out as one of the seven "races," because of some genetic programing the seven women put into their offspring to ensure that the trait they wanted to "fix" in humanity lived on. The Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. Unsurprisingly, Ariane, the Seven's Julian member. As far as I can see, I just got two novels for the price of one. Members of Survey and Snake Eaters are tasked with monitoring and reporting on the growth of New Earth's ecosystem which, after millennia of seeding using manipulated DNA preserved from Old Earth and oceans replaced with melted comet ice, is nearly ready for human reoccupation. They discover that some humans ("Diggers") have survived the Hard Rain on the planet by living in deep mines, and others survived in ocean trenches using submarines ("Pingers"); the latter group descends from a separate, secret underwater ark that had been created concurrently with the Cloud Ark. She then called a meeting of the entire human race: Dinah, Ivy, Moira, Tekla, Julia, Ada, Camila, and Luisa. Finally they opened the hatch and began to explore it one module at a time. This includes some potentially. "Going epi" has a similar effect on Moirans that regeneration has on Time Lords. Julia had resisted those demands until the data had finally been leaked by a turncoat on her staff. The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked. 2) Why not take care of the threat first. That stuff, as Sean Probst had well known, would be priceless as nutrients to support agriculture. Most Arkies are selected with that in mind. Just one of them, maybe one of the men? The book also received the libertarian Prometheus Award of 2016. An optimistic theory circulates, claiming the moon's gravity will gradually draw together all the fragments, but vivid meteor showers seem to contradict this notion. In addition to these Spacer races, there are two "rootstock" races that do not descend from the Seven Eves. Some of those remained conscious long enough to relate the stories of what had happened to them during the conflict with the people who had come in from the Swarm, and Endurances final, hectic passage through storm and stone. These now projected upward like leaves. Something that will go on without them. Here's a theory I came up with, though maybe it will be jossed as I read on: The "races" aren't races in the traditional sense. The public is urged to assist the Cloud Ark project, but are not aware that only 1,500 people ultimately will be selected by a supposed Casting of Lots; the mass activity is designed to assuage despair and lessen chances of rioting and other violence. Various structures ramified outward from it like boughs. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. For more information, please see our You have 2 years to move, blow up, push away the moon. Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange! Part 3 lists several stages in the development of the races. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Even if Cleft banged into an equally huge rock at some point, they would probably survive it. Seveneves. I'm no good at editing, so I'll leave it to the author or someone else to figure out where to put in the actual question: What prevented the racial mixing between the grandchildren of the different Eves? An ad hoc committee of spacefaring nations establishes a project of immense scale: the International Space Station will serve as the hub around which will be constructed a Cloud Ark consisting of hundreds of "arklets," prefabricated "cans" rotating in pairs for artificial gravity. Entrepreneur Sean Probst, Dinah's boss, founder and chairman of Arjuna Expeditions, plans to head an operation to capture and bring back to ISS a cometGrigg-Skjellerup ("Greg's Skeleton")formed of ice, which will provide drinking water and can be used as a propellant for "Izzy's" thrusters. Is the word "vitamin" meaning "any item shippable to space" a creation of Neal Stephenson in Seveneves? By clicking Accept all cookies, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy. One of the most talked about books this year, Seveneves is a story about what might happen if a better version of our world had to cope with an unimaginable catastrophe. If you order a special airline meal (e.g. It could only happen if people chose mates who they perceived to be of the same ancestral type. The ultimate, permanent, destination is a massive iron moon remnant scored with a Grand Canyon-sized zone named Cleft. I had already been put off by the jingoistic libertarian nonsense promulgated through a lot of science fiction and given centre stage in this novel, but this anti-humanities screed was the last straw. Some children have a cleft lip or cleft palate because of changes in their genes. Life is too short for lazy strawmen in fiction. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. [by the way, I've always understood Cleft to be (part of) the solid core of the Moon; if so, they might be short-strapped for metal variety as well, given how the solid core of the Moon is mostly a large chunk of iron with tiny deposits of nickel and sulfur]. They were dependent, in many ways, on digital technology. Following the establishment of the seven races, there is a period of weeding out the worst genetic errors: Correction was the name given to the phase that had begun after the first round of Gestations, when Eve Moira had fixed errors that had led to several nonviable infants. Having been raised on the idea of 'Space, the Final Frontier', I was both appalled and fascinated by the possibility that it might instead become an impenetrable ceiling only a hundred or so miles above our heads. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Author, Year Seveneves Pulbished, Pingers and more. If the latter could you, Hi, welcome to SF&F. Seveneves offers at once his most conventional science-fiction scenario and a superb exploration of his abiding fascination with systems, philosophies and the limits of technology. Thanks for the edit @gowenfawr. The kernel around which the story nucleated was the space debris problem, which I had been reading about, both as a potential obstacle to the company's efforts and as a possible opportunity to do something useful in space by looking for ways to remediate it. Of water they still had a hundred tons left over. Why was the nose gear of Concorde located so far aft? Seveneves Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Quotes and a Free Quiz on Cookie Notice Traditionally plastic comes from oil, but no one said it had to be dinosaur oil, vegetable oil can also be used to make plastic. The first sentence sets the scene pretty well: This epic tale of survival of the human species in space after the earth gets wrecked by a Hard Rain of meteorites was a real treat for me. The healthy ones patched holes, repressurized modules, got the torus spinning again, and turned it into a sick bay, which filled up immediately. As much as I like science fiction with an apocalyptical scenarios, this book couldn't grab my attention at all. Neal Stephenson, libro Seveneves "Pioneers and Prospectors" Seveneves (2015), Part One I guess that people like to think they are not only living but propagating their way of life." "That's right. Moira can still use her genetics laboratory to rebuild the human race by automictic parthenogenesis. You break my heart, Mr. Howard, you break my heart. There are some clues in Part 3 of the book. 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