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Seveneves: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Seveneves was included on Leader Obama’s Summer 2016 reading list.

Seveneves was one of only five books recommended by Costs Gates while “need to reads” for Summertime 2016.

In the #1 NY Times bestselling writer of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes a thrilling and thought-provoking science fiction epic-a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

What would happen if the globe were ending?

A catastrophic event renders the planet earth a ticking time bomb. In a about Seveneves: A Novel feverish competition against the inevitable, nations around the world band jointly to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity considerably beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

However the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen issues and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a small number of survivors remain….

Five thousand years later, their progeny-seven specific races now 3 billion strong-embark about another audacious journey into the unfamiliar…to an alien world utterly changed by cataclysm and period: Earth.

A writer of stunning genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in an impressive work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of another that’s both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Routine, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges inside a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and entirely brilliant.