The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason. That’s how Seveneves begins, and it pulled me right in. I stayed up until 3am last night to finish this 867-page hard science fiction novel, to the point that my eyes were watering and my cat was giving me the stinkeye for keeping …
Tag: Neal Stephenson
May 24 2015
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- By Laura Eilers in Laura, Review, Science Fiction
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May 24, 2015
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Nov 24 2005
The System of the World
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Review, Science Fiction
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November 24, 2005
Sorry, this is not a post proclaiming a political theory of everything. It’s a note saying “‘Tis done!” I picked up Neal Stephenson’s The System of the World sooner than I thought and finished it up right quick. Previous posts on the Baroque Cycle are here, here, here and here. The argument of the trilogy …
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Oct 12 2005
The Con-fusion
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Review, Science Fiction
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October 12, 2005
I’m probably the last blogger still reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, and chances are good that I won’t take on the third part, The System of the World, immediately after finishing the second, The Confusion. Not because the books aren’t good, just that it is a lot to read consecutively. The good news is that …
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Apr 11 2005
Slowsilver
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Review, Science Fiction, Short Takes
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April 11, 2005
Because I mentioned Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver a couple of times earlier this year, I will now add that I’ve finished reading it. The pace picks up a bit around page 800. To be slightly less unfair, I should say that a number of people have told me that the second and third books are better. …
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Feb 07 2005
A Note …
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Review, Science Fiction
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February 7, 2005
Upon Reading the First Ninth of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle It is a Frolick, a Cornucopia of interesting things, a narrative of the discovery of the calculus, scientific feuds, dissection, Religious Dissent, changing fashions in art, the return of comedy to the English stage, computation, coinage, banking and much, much more. One of the Leading …
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