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I read Neil Stephenson's novel, Seveneves, so you don't have to.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/18/seveneves-tedious-physics-and-appalling-genetics/
@pzmyers Stephenson lost me with the baroque cycle and everything since then has been tedious. Couldn't even make it through REAMDE.
@tetron I very much liked the Baroque cycle, but yeah, otherwise his output has become long tedious digressions on his tech obsession du jour.