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Oct. 21st, 2015 12:31 pm
Oct. 21st, 2015
It's often been remarked that Neal Stephenson can't write endings, and his novels tend to either end abruptly in the space of a page, or not have an ending at all just a stop.
Seveneves takes this to a new level. Kerbal Space Program: The Novel (the majority of the book) stops abruptly without an ending. It is followed by several hundred pages of a thematically-unrelated sequel novel, which also does not have an ending.
This is a new record, even for Stephenson.
But it's Neal Stephenson, so as long as you don't care about endings or science and don't mind not having them, it's a novel and a second half-novel of very entertaining and eminently readable fluffy sci-fi.
Seveneves takes this to a new level. Kerbal Space Program: The Novel (the majority of the book) stops abruptly without an ending. It is followed by several hundred pages of a thematically-unrelated sequel novel, which also does not have an ending.
This is a new record, even for Stephenson.
But it's Neal Stephenson, so as long as you don't care about endings or science and don't mind not having them, it's a novel and a second half-novel of very entertaining and eminently readable fluffy sci-fi.