6/1/2023 0 Comments The seven eves![]() ![]() Stephenson takes his time doing so, layering on a perhaps not entirely necessary game of intrigue involving a sly-boots “dusky blonde” of a president. The bad news is that it’s going to be messy.” The solution? Get off the planet fast, set up space colonies, perpetuate the human race using turkey basters-well, a “DNA sequence stored on a thumb drive,” anyway-and multiple moms, whence the title. ![]() Ever the optimist, Doob puts it this way: “The good news is that the Earth is one day going to have a beautiful system of rings, just like Saturn. ![]() Easy street gives way to a very rocky galactic road as Doob has to figure out why the heavens are suddenly hurling mountains of space debris at Earth in a time already fraught with human-caused difficulty. His latest opens with a literal bang as the moon explodes “without warning and for no apparent reason.” When the reason finally does become apparent, it’s cause to enlist steely-jawed action hero Dubois Jerome Xavier Harris, Ph.D., a scientist who makes fat bread as a TV science popularizer and sucker-up to the rich and powerful. No slim fables or nerdy novellas for Stephenson ( Anathem, 2008, etc.): his visions are epic, and he requires whole worlds-and, in this case, solar systems-to accommodate them. ![]()
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