The characters from the first 565 pages are dust. He stops the action abruptly, with humanity on the brink, before fast-forwarding his story 5,000 years. Stephenson has taken two halves of intriguingly premised stories and stuck them together like a literary cut and shut. Only an author with the vision and audacity of Neal Stephenson would have tried to do both. There would have been spaceships and gadgets, tension and politics, heroes and villains. They would have written about the great escape. Those not tempted to start at page 565 might have written an apocalyptic tale about the destruction of the moon and the resulting disaster for planet Earth. There would have been tension and politics, spaceships and gadgets, heroes and villains.
They would have told an epic hard sci-fi tale about seven races attempting to colonize a planet. Most authors, who are not Neal Stephenson, would have started writing Sevenevesat page 565.
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