Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
If the world were to end, what would happen? The earth is a ticking time bomb in the event of a cataclysmic occurrence. Nations from all over the world come up with an ambitious plan to guarantee human life in space, far beyond our atmosphere, in a frantic race against the unavoidable.
However, the complicated and unpredictable character of human nature, along with unforeseen difficulties and perils, endangers the brave pioneers, leaving just a small number of survivors.
Five thousand years later, their descendants—seven different species numbering three billion—set out on yet another bold adventure into the unknown, this time to an alien globe called Earth, which has undergone radical change as a result of cataclysm and time.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson, a writer of brilliant talent and visionary vision, blends literature, physics, philosophy, technology, and psychology in a superb work of science fiction that paints a picture of a future that is both astonishing and uncannily familiar. In a spectacular tale that is brave, captivating, and all-around brilliant, Stephenson addresses some of our largest concepts and vexing difficulties, just as he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde.
This book demonstrates how people may adjust to situations where survival would otherwise seem impossible. The moon explodes at the beginning of the novel for no apparent reason. It initially splits into seven large parts, but a well-known astronomer known as “Doob” and his graduate students predict that it will soon split into billions of pieces, many of which will reenter Earth’s atmosphere and destroy the atmosphere and everything in it. 25 months hence. Numerous other nations’ scientists independently come to the same conclusion.
The majority of the 7 billion humans and almost all other living things will perish because there isn’t much time to prepare for the end of the planet in two years. And regrettably, it is predicted that the “hard rain”—a swarm of debris—will continue for another 5000 years. Thus, it won’t be able to immediately repopulate the surface of the Earth. Somehow, people will have to learn how to live permanently underground or in space. Although it’s obvious that only a small number of people can make it to space in so short of a period, even with all of Earth’s resources, industry, and minds dedicated to this, the first 600 pages are primarily focused on a massive space lifeboat attempt.
