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> I completed SEVENEVES recently and have three other novel projects in the works. Somewhat perversely, however, using social media has now become part of a nov
by atmosx 11y ago
> I completed SEVENEVES recently and have three other novel projects in the works. Somewhat perversely, however, using social media has now become part of a novelist's job.
I find amazing the fact that he manages to write 3 or 4 novels at the same time.
- sbierwagen 11y agoWe can only hope that the other novels will be better than Seveneves.
- atmosx 11y agoI have read only 2 of his novels so far - and they in my top10 list of books. Cryptonomicon & SnowCrash - I've read the first book of the Baroque Cycle too!
- trusche 11y agoThey can hardly get worse. I used to be a huge fan of NS, but Seveneves was the last book of his I bought without reading review first. He seems to have decided that character development is for other people, not to mention the gaping plot holes. Sloppy and superficial.
- programmarchy 11y agoHuh, I thought the book was pretty good. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) I couldn't put it down for the first 500 pages. Things got a little slow in the second part of the book, but I thought the character development in terms of the races of Eves was a really interesting twist. You still "knew" the characters based on their ancestors. I do wish he had fleshed out the history of the Diggers and Pingers, but that could be an entire book in itself.
- acheron 11y agoDifferent strokes I guess. I thought REAMDE was rather dull but Seveneves was a nice bounceback. FWIW my favorite Stephenson novel is still Anathem.