Seveneves is a superhuman achievement, dense, eloquent, exhaustive, exhilarating, powerful, utterly readable, and ultimately uplifting. That included, if need be, throwing themselves on the mercy of Endurance. Not only does this succeed for the most part 5000 years later, but the Epic that forms part of said archives has since become a nigh-sacred aspect of Spacer society. Julia Flaherty and most of the station's occupants abandon the vessel, head off in arklets to a safer orbit, and start the long journey toward Mars. Ada still wasnt talking, but Julia was. These will support the last people to escape Old Earth, as well as the vital Human Genetic Archive. This is early on, before the idea of pure races was a thing. Or even meaning. Popular African-American celebrity scientist Doc Dubois is, Commercial spaceflight billionaire Sean Probst is Elon Musk, Teenaged activist and target of an assassination attempt Camila is Malala Yousafzai, Space exploration company Arjuna Expeditions is, Tech blogger and singularity theorist Tavistock Prowse is Cory Doctorow. The great thing about a good Stephenson book is it makes you think about the future in new ways, and this book was no exception. From the Hammerhead, now one piece of metal with Cleft, the Stack ran straight up like the trunk of a tree. Review posted at the B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog: As the joke has been going, if you enjoy orbital mechanics as a main character, you'll enjoy this novel. So even when there was mixing, the seven lines would continue as they started. The first 2/3rds is all hard science fiction, where science matters and the whole thing is tied together with plausibility. I guess Neal Stephenson is a legend for a reason! Yo soy fundamentalmente humanista, por lo que debo reconocer que algunas descripciones cientficas y tecnolgicas se me hicieron algo largas y densas, a pesar de que el autor se preocupa de presentarlas de tal forma que hasta el ms lego en la materia pueda entenderlas. They wanted to silence me, and so they did. Noun. The loss of life in the Hard Rain had, of course, been much worse. The predicted "hard rain" starts 701 days after the moon's shattering, and Earth's surface is annihilated. Following this there is a period of mixing in the single Cradle habitat: Stabilization, which lasted through the following ten generations or so as Y chromosomes were patched up, lingering genetic mistakes were fixed, and members of different Strains began to interbreed to produce hybrids within their own racial groups. Dubois "Doob" Jerome Xavier Harris, Ph.D. observes the moon's destruction during a fund-raiser at Caltech Athenaeum. It was some combination of crime scene, battleground, and disaster zone. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Further problems arise when reports of anomalous people on Earth spark the creation of Seven, an investigatory group comprised of one member from each of the new human races. according to Cyc, the Pingers evolved solely through selective breeding. Are the United Nations ever mentioned in Seveneves? crevasse - a deep fissure. This causes a world-wide scramble to put everything possible into the Cloud Ark. It also annoyed me that they pretended early in the book (before the hard rain) that frozen embryos could be obtained from a pregnant woman, which is not how it works at all, and seemed to be an oversight rather than intentional plot point. Rather than passively await the judgment which they foresaw as extremely pious, sanctimonious, and punitive of Ivy and her claque, they would seize part or all of Endurance, beginning with her network, and then negotiate terms from a position of strength. One of the most talked about books this year, Seveneves is a story about what might happen if a better version of our world had to cope with an unimaginable catastrophe. Ivy notes that, apparently, Dinah has decided if the women can't resolve their differences and figure out how to move forward in that time, the human race doesn't deserve the chance. Since one of the Seven Eves was a Russian Cosmonaut, the Russian influence is quite apparent in The Spacers' language and culture. Ariane in part 3 turns out to be one for Red. The Swarm had always had a sort of quasi-divine status to some, who had perhaps read too much chaos theory too superficially and were prone to believing that its collective decisions, lying beyond human understanding, partook of the supernatural. By clicking Post Your Answer, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy. Some of those remained conscious long enough to relate the stories of what had happened to them during the conflict with the people who had come in from the Swarm, and Endurances final, hectic passage through storm and stone. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. The total number of living humans was now sixteen. From coronal mass ejections they were equally immune. Seveneves is a novel by Neal Stephenson describing humanity's efforts to deal with a Detonation Moon of unknown origin and the ensuing 5,000 years of biological, societal, cultural, and technological change. It only takes a minute to sign up. To begin with, there had to be mixing at the start when the population was small. That would take a long time, but the survivors all shared the conviction that, having sacrificed so much to make it here, they should be interred and not burned. Using the genetics lab, each of these women infuse their descendants with modifications that they think will facilitate survival. I continued my recent SF binge with a look at this mammoth offering from the award-winning writer of speculative fiction. This includes some potentially. The ISS is attached to a captured Arjuna (near-Earth) asteroid, Almathea, which is being mined for nickel and iron by Dinah MacQuarie's robots. Moira says she can make it so they can have kids that are clones with slight changes, why is it then, that she never decides to use the genetic material of any of their dead crew mates or even some of luisas? The descendants 5,000 years in the future in the. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides, causing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. Pingers who, incidently, bring a woman along on a potentially very dangerous first contact meeting as well, making it likely that their society also subverts this trope. The President's Science Adviser, Dr. Pete Starling, is as devastated as everyone else when informed that the Cloud Ark must be self-sustaining for 5,000 to 10,000 years. But the Arkitects, anticipating this, had stocked them with a large surplus of spare parts that would last for hundreds of years if husbanded carefully. But after a particularly severe coronal mass ejection had slain nearly a hundred Arkies, Tav had written a blog post about the journey he had made to Bhutan with Doob and the conversation that theyd had en route with the king concerning the mathematics of reincarnation. Once they got him into the suit, though, his energy flooded back. In such a scenario, I can't understand how racial purity would have been preserved, and certainly not how it would continue for 5000 years. the Human Genetic Archive is destroyed or lost, Izzy is hit by a bolide, the Swarm scatters, and by three years after the Hard Rain begins there are only eight survivors. Additionally, this physical isolation encouraged a culture where some actively worked to maintain separate racial identities. And so they did, never letting her out of their sight, never letting her get behind them. Seveneves offers at once his most conventional science-fiction scenario and a superb exploration of his abiding fascination with systems, philosophies and the limits of technology. It could only happen if people chose mates who they perceived to be of the same ancestral type. In one of them they found Ada, the only other survivor from the heptad. Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. The time leading up to Cleft, the time between Cleft and the Ring, and then the Ring to the end. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. May 29, 2015 9:30 AM PT. On the floor of the crevasse, Grabbs and Siwis were at work, rooting Endurance to her final resting place with spreading cables and struts. The book also received the libertarian Prometheus Award of 2016. One day some historian would piece the story together, comparing it with data logs to figure out who had slain whom in combat and which module had gone dark when. Several had suffered injuries from combat or from the consequences of bolide strikes. Once established, more conflict manifests from the Diggers. Not long after, Swiss astronaut Markus Leuker replaces Ivy as commander of the Ark, and announces that all political/national allegiances no longer hold, and declares what amounts to martial law pursuant to the Crater Lake Accorda sort of new Constitution prepared on Earth during the massive production of materials in Seattle. PTIJ Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence? Any tablet (accessed with the correct password) can be used to control the station's thrusters, and network specialists design social media platforms: Scape, for video-conferencing; Spacebook for more recreational matters; and a cell-phone system. So My question is: How did they survive for 4500 years? They come to a decision in less than three minutes. You'll never look at the moon the same way again. Was Galileo expecting to see so many stars? Really 3 stars but I'll add .5 for pure chutzpah. The brain-trust is tasked by leaders to engineer a self-sustaining environment capable of maneuvering away from larger fragments, and withstanding 5,000 years in near-earth orbit until the planet is stable enough to be terraformed into supporting life. These now projected upward like leaves. The analogy was a loose one. Suffering from brain damage, blindness, and psychosis, he struggles to find answers in an ever changing reality. You break my heart, Mr. Howard, you break my heart. Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth. The Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. I love Stephenson - and this was another hit - absolutely loved it. "Seveneves" is not an easy read (Stephenson never is), and it isn't his best work, but it is a fun and thoughtful exploration of a concept. If each Eve and her offspring were physically separated, this might make sense. Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. Endurance was no longer a ship but a building. Authorities on Earth, including NASA, paint the moon's destruction with false sentiment and "cute" terms. Some, whose DNA was repurposed long ago by Eve Moira, are capable of epigenetic adaptation. They did not know quite what to do with Julia and Ada. After Endurance (formerly the ISS) is fitted with the immense ice "splinter" captured by tragically heroic Sean Probst and his crew, the new mass burdens the projected one-year, 300,000-mile journey to Cleft into three years. They had, in effect, sidestepped grief by convincing themselves that nothing had happened. Is the word "vitamin" meaning "any item shippable to space" a creation of Neal Stephenson in Seveneves? The Moirans have the unique ability to "go epi" and reshuffle their genetic phenotype, making them the most versatile race of the Seven. Is a hot staple gun good enough for interior switch repair? [10], Bill Gates recommended Seveneves as one of five books to read in the summer of 2016, praising in particular its scientific accuracy. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Only without the Adam, and starts 2/3 of the way through the book. He manages to head the operation toward the Ark, and he and his six-person crew perish from radiation poisoning. "[2] Such a collisional domino effect of satellite destruction is known as the Kessler syndrome. The third part of the book is set approximately 5,000 years after that. Julia had resisted those demands until the data had finally been leaked by a turncoat on her staff. Most Arkies are selected with that in mind. Wait for the conclusion, because after about 70 percent of the novel, a fascinating future humankind enters the stage. The vitamins that had been packed into every arklet launched up into the Cloud Ark had been intended to support a population of thousands. Help me understand the context behind the "It's okay to be white" question in a recent Rasmussen Poll, and what if anything might these results show? [5][6][7] A review in the Chicago Tribune commented on the book's length, stating "when Stephenson finds a theme commensurate with his ambition, all those pages can speed by like a bullet train. Ada, of course, might have been their best source of information, had she felt like talking. Seveneves Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to However, I don't know how realistic this redifferentiation scenario is. Without going into gory detail about Mendelian inheritance, traits aren't really blended: the genes are just shuffled. The cleft wasn't a huge focus, but I believe it is mentioned pretty early on as part of Doob's potential plan (he talks about the biggest piece of the moon that remains having a rich iron chunk and the cleft being a pretty safe spot to land). Using the ice comet, the remaining third of the Cloud Ark and the ISS (now dubbed Endurance) take three years to reach the Cleft, a Grand Canyonsized crevasse on the now-exposed iron core of the Moon. The artifacts are dumped as soon as people aren't looking and both the Cloud Ark and the Human Genetic Archive are massive failures. Integral with cosine in the denominator and undefined boundaries. And though we never see it, it's clear the Pingers have created a major underwater civilization substantially larger than that of the Diggers, though still much smaller than that of the Spacers. was a threat to no one. After 5,000 years, several billion people (descended from the Seven Eves: Dinah, Ivy, Moira, Camila, Julia, Tekla, Ada) live in the Great Chain, a ring of orbiting habitats. Is this your own speculation on the matter or is it actually a line in the books? An amateur astronomer in Utah was the first person on earth to realize that something unusual was happening. US President Julia Bliss Flaherty manages to get herself up to the Cloud Ark despite provisions that members of government would not be launched into space. They appear to not have external genitals, though they're probably just hidden by skin flaps. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Was it? It was a meditative piece, a secular eulogy for those who had fallen, but in retrospect it seemed to mark an inflection point in the survivors thinking. They had scrubbed the place down with bleach and made the beds with clean sheets in the hopes that none of them would be occupied for a long time. Reading the book now and have the same concerns. If you order a special airline meal (e.g. Then, at the last moment, she had been eclipsed by Ada. Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. The breakup of the Moon by an unknown "Agent" leads to a "Hard Rain" of. Plastics are primarily hydrocarbons (i.e. The story is this: after an unexplained event shatters the Moon into fragments, the Earth becomes uninhabitable. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. His best in a decade, I dare say. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. To one side of it was death: the sick bay where Zeke, the last man alive, had given up the ghost a day and a half ago, after making a joke about what a shame it all was: being the only man alive, with eight women to choose from. The problems with inbreeding are mitigated by having a world-class geneticist on hand. humans have evolved to live underwater, underground and on the moon and are drastically different from contemporary humanity. Where they walked, it was dark most of the time. I'm no good at editing, so I'll leave it to the author or someone else to figure out where to put in the actual question: What prevented the racial mixing between the grandchildren of the different Eves? They had no ability to fabricate new computer chips to replace the old. chap - a crack in a lip caused usually by cold. When Endurance reaches the safety of the Cleft, there are only eight surviving Homo sapiens in space, all of whom are women. That would at least have meant that they wouldn't have to create a y chromosome later on. On clear nights he would drive his pickup truck to the top of a. The Eves basically started a genetic cold war at the Council of the Seven Eves. 1 title per month from Audible's entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. The ultimate, permanent, destination is a massive iron moon remnant scored with a Grand Canyon-sized zone named Cleft. If the latter could you, Hi, welcome to SF&F. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Not the answer you're looking for? vegan) just for fun, does this inconvenience the caterers and staff? Truce of the burning tree -- how realistic? could be toppled and replaced by people who knew what they were doing. Seveneves. The Ark's population has been reduced to eight women, with the rest of the crew having sacrificed themselves to ensure their survival. Probst's crew has died of radiation sickness caused by nuclear fallout from his ship's nuclear reactor. A Novel. Dinah does this and, along with the rest of humanity, knows the universe is forever changed. They name the debris cloud "white sky," precursor to the unimaginable apocalypse of "hard rain" when the mass becomes super-heated bolides (bright fireballs) smashing into the planet and causing the oceans to boil away. It was impossible to be the object of that gaze without thinking of what she and the others had done, and without imagining that you were being sized up as food. In spite of treaties, a group labeled as Sooners take it upon themselves to relocate to Earth. They no longer had to worry, ever again, about the things that had been their obsessive concerns for the last five years: perigees, apogees, burns, propellant, movement of any kind. For, though eight women were present, one of them Luisa had already gone through menopause. They talked about how to set up mirrors that would bounce sunlight downward onto the arklets, which could grow food and scrub air in their translucent outer hulls. And all of those are impressive! Luisa likened it to the growth of spiritualism after the First World War. He writes, "Seveneves reminded me of all the things I love about science fiction". vegan) just for fun, does this inconvenience the caterers and staff? 1. People have a need to feel that they are part of some sustainable project. The storytelling and character development not so much so. Seven Eves: Directed by Mark Nordhagen. When Endurance reaches the safety of the Cleft, there are only eight female survivors, only seven of whom (Dinah, Ivy, Ada, Tekla, Camila, Moira, and Julia) are able to bear children. Dr. Harris meets with U.S. president Julia Bliss Flaherty, and tells her it's crucial to stop asking what happened, and start talking about what's going to happen. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. This doesn't really seem a question? Planned Maintenance scheduled March 2nd, 2023 at 01:00 AM UTC (March 1st, Latest Blog Post: Jacks Bad Movies Black Adam (2022), Chain of events in second act of "Seveneves". She had sunk into a profound depression, emerging from it at seemingly random moments to chatter about whatever stray thoughts were flitting through her head. The problem is that it's a propos of nothing. With the Human Genetic Archive gone, Moira explains that, using automictic parthenogenesis, uniparental embryos can be created out of normal eggs. Anyone who had not taken shelter in the Hammerhead, or in a storm shelter, was suffering from radiation sickness. 2015 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Ivy Xiao's fianc, Navy submarine commander Cal Blankenship, has headed with his crew for a deep-sea trench. Dinah sent out some Grabbs to weld the ship to the asteroid. After the moon inexplicably explodes, Dubois Harris and others figure out that they have around two years before the debris starts raining from the sky and ends all life on the planet. From a certain point of view, this was surprisingly good. One idea that I had was that NS could have just included one line that says that Moira developed some kind of genetic coding that ensured the babies would carry the genetic traits of the mother always. But they did. Ada's faction in the Swarm eventually becomes this, Julia ends up firing the gun from said holster at Tekla, injuring her, and Aida's group uses it to kill one of the survivors when they invade Izzy, her tongue has been fixed in place with washers on a bolt running from the floor to the roof of her mouth. Like I said, I'm still reading the book, so I don't know if my hypothesis can hold up, or not. The causes of orofacial clefts among most infants are unknown. and our Only about half of the modules were still pressurized. The Spacers are humanoid and generally can still be considered, The final section of the book has a character named ". The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves. Tropes used: Abnormal Ammo: The Spacers of 5,000 years in the future do not use guns. Ivy opened with a report on their general situation. Tav, to his credit, had backed away from any efforts to elevate him to prophetlike status. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and . The Red military has squads of genetically reimagined Neanderthals who are naturally as strong as Teklans and use whips of microbots in combat, Humanity is in the process of repopulating the Earth, but it is divided against itself into two warring alliances: The Blue nation and the Pingers against the Red nation and the Diggers. At the time of part three in the book, the chart on the plate at page 601 (HarperCollins first edition) maps the population in terms of its "predominant ancestry" and includes the categories "mixed" and "none." After scores of pages of this, my eyelids were succumbing to a powerful gravitational force. Seveneves was one of only five books recommended by Bill Gates as "must reads" for Summer 2016.. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epica grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. Seveneves is available now in the US and May 21st in the UK from HarperCollins. In addition to these Spacer races, there are two "rootstock" races that do not descend from the Seven Eves. If those unusually dark- or light-skinned people selected each other, you could have a reemergence of a group of dark- or light-skinned people, given enough generations and a big enough population. Seveneves will please fans of hard science fiction, but this witty, epic tale is also sure to win over readers new to Stephenson's work." -- Washington Post " Seveneves can be fascinating. At length, it is understood that yet further disagreements and even violence will forever mark the races of humankind, wherever they may travel. to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. They could not long survive without robots to do work for them and computerized control systems to keep the installation running. Descriptions for each of these conditions follow. Its been a while since book left me with so many mixed feelings like Seveneves did. I did. "[8] Booklist also praised the work, writing "Well-paced over three parts covering 5,000 years of humanity's future, Stephenson's monster of a book is likely to dominate your 2015 sf-reading experience. Stack Exchange network consists of 181 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Other things like cellulose and starch can be used to make plastic as well. My conclusion is that this is a hard science fiction book from the astrophysics perspective (expertise of the author) but completely magical realism regarding genetics. Corporal punishment was at least a theoretical possibility. Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange! Near the ending, it turns out the underground group has survived for 5,000 years, and it is revealed the underwater effort might have been as big as the space effort, with elaborate plans and multiple habitats. Blue's army is mostly Teklans, who are hulking supersoldiers genetically engineered from a Russian badass. As the population multiplied, in the period known as Propagation, separate racial groups tended to form isolated colonies across Cleft, and further afield, leading into an era where the races diverged again: Isolation: the formation of racially pure populations. The population is divided into seven races, each of which descends from and is named after one of the seven Eves and carries distinct racial characteristics that harken back to the personalities and characteristics of the original Eves. Latent radioactivity in the spacecraft's fuel rods will convert comet ice into steam. They sent Buckies and Siwis out ahead of them to illuminate dark spaces and aim cameras into hidden corners. And yet, there is no explanation of what prevented racial mixing between the grandchildren of different Eves. Insights into the human character shine like occasional full moons." -- Boston Globe In the extended short term, they can manage to sustain a very small population through a very efficient recycling process, but the fact remains that Izzy and the Arklets brought effectively jack squat when you look at the prospect of building an advanced society in the hundreds of millions. Swarmamentalists, who want "pure swarm," i.e., the genetics lab and materials distributed among the arklets, which would then collectively move to a higher orbit relatively safe from lunar debris. Endurance weighed about as much as a couple of semi-trailer rigs. 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