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(Spoilers) The arklet population goes from 1500 to 7 after a civil war. The first thing the mole people do after coming up from underground is kill someone. Af
by sbierwagen 9y ago
(Spoilers)
The arklet population goes from 1500 to 7 after a civil war. The first thing the mole people do after coming up from underground is kill someone. After the timeskip, the majority of the text is about the cold war between the new factions, resulting in a brief battle.
There is a subplot about a hope for a better future, but after ten thousand years of constant war, the book doesn't produce much evidence that it's even possible.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago(Spoilers) Also, RE that arklet civil war - what the book clearly shows is that, even in the face of total annihilation of the human race, whatever unity and shared purpose there is, it takes one politician on a power trip to undo all of that and get people to start killing each other. Seveneves is a very good book, but it's also one of the most depressing ones I've ever read. About the only positive thing it tells about humanity is that the survivors watched videos of people from "old Earth", and based on that, elected not to reinvent social media.