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I read Neil Stephenson's novel, Seveneves, so you don't have to.

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Peter Amstutz @tetron

@pzmyers Stephenson lost me with the baroque cycle and everything since then has been tedious. Couldn't even make it through REAMDE.

pzmyers 🦑 @pzmyers

@tetron I very much liked the Baroque cycle, but yeah, otherwise his output has become long tedious digressions on his tech obsession du jour.

:two_hearts:Euphoria @Euphoria@mastodon.network

@pzmyers Oh dear. I was wondering why on earth I wouldn't /want to/ read something by Neil Stephenson but I guess you make that pretty clear.

Thanks for the review!

Jason @OldandConfused@mastodon.cloud

@Euphoria @pzmyers Hmm, hold on there. While I'm firmly in the old school William Gibson camp, Stephenson has written plenty of truly great novels. Snowcrash, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon...

Inactive (SoE) @somethingeloquent@social.tchncs.de

@pzmyers I assume you're referring to Neal Stephenson. I've only read Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. It sounds like I needn't bother collecting the rest of his works :-/

Zaphod Beeblebrox III @Zaphodbblx

@pzmyers oh you science people (joking) personally my biggest problem was no that the seveneves decided to dedicate themselves to assembly line birthing but they decided that it was ok to sentence their progeny to the same fate for millennia.

Bert @bert@nomofomo.social

@pzmyers I haven't read that one yet. Read several Neil Stephen novels in the past. What did you think of this one?

:two_hearts:Euphoria @Euphoria@mastodon.network

Neal Stephenson has a link to the beginning of Seveneves on his site, in case someone wants to decide whether or not to read it from that: nealstephenson.com/news/2015/0

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