![]() ![]() What happens next? Well, there is good news and bad news. Spinny, and are being observed by all as the sensation of the season – but then they begin to collide with each other. The big lumps keep in orbit, at first – they are given cute names, like Scoop, Kidney Bean and Mr. An Agent, an unexplained force, tears the Moon apart into seven huge chunks (and myriads smaller, which quickly turn into cosmic dust or else fall down on Earth as meteors, killing a few unlucky chaps along the way). ![]() ![]() That’s the opening earthquake of Stephenson’s Seveneves. There is a huge, hazy cloud instead, growing with an alarming speed. Imagine that you close your eyes for a fraction of second, and when you open them again, the Moon is no more. Imagine looking at the Moon, its white, pocked face benevolently gazing down on you. Imagine yourself, right about now, looking up at the starry – or blue, depending on your current location on Earth – sky. ![]() It starts in an ideal Hitchcock fashion: with an earthquake, followed by an ever rising tension. It has been shortlisted for 2016 Hugo award and is currently being adapted to film by the Apollo 13 filming team. Seveneves is a critically acclaimed, almost seven hundred pages long science fiction novel, with solid two-thirds of it being trademark Stephenson hard sf. ![]()
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