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Seveneves - Neal Stephenson (2015)
This is hard science fiction in the mode of "Do you enjoy reading technical instruction manuals that have a barebones narrative absent of fleshed-out characters?" There are many hundreds of pages of which I'd consider infodumps that specifically address how the world is ending, how that's survived, and what comes after the end. It's all presented from an engineering, physics, math, and biological perspective. So if you are expecting any sort of anthropological, sociological, or psychological exploration, you won't find it here. If the content of this book were food, I'd say it's almost 100% dietary fiber. It wasn't something that I could digest or absorb, and it didn't really provide any nutrition, but it also didn't have a bad taste for the most part. Overall, it's just whatever.
I would've preferred this to be three parts that were novella length rather than being a trilogy in one book. At almost 900 pages long, it had an awful ratio of worthwhileness versus time spent. I would say something about the pacing, but it was almost nonexistent, so there isn't much to say in that regard. That goes for almost everything else about it as well. The third part could easily stand alone. Would it any good in that form? No, it wouldn't, but I think it could be read before parts one and two without much difference. They could be considered a prequel origin story.
I don't know when I've last seen a book so eager to spoil itself. From the opening summary in the book itself, to the Goodreads synopsis, to even the title itself, there's no avoiding spoilers unless you go in completely blind. That's what I did, mostly. I wouldn't have read this on my own and it's now the only Stephenson book I've finished. I don't have any interest in reading any others from him. No, not even not Snow Crash, which I've previously looked at. The best that came from reading this was writing what you've just read.
Rating: 2/5

Why is Neal Stephenson such a despicable author. I'm reading Seveneves and expect objective hard-sifi, but what I get is POC girl power trannyfest. It's like he attaches this subtext in every paragraph.

What the fuck was this dude thinking?

Tell me, anons.
Why the fuck did he felt the need to ruin the amazing first 2 hard-scifi parts with the awful weird shit part 3?