Ooof. Stephenson is among my favorite authors. Before Seveneves that wouldn't have had a qualifier. I re-read Cryptonomicon every year or two, the baroque cycl

Ooof. Stephenson is among my favorite authors. Before Seveneves that wouldn't have had a qualifier. I re-read Cryptonomicon every year or two, the baroque cycle about half that frequently, and Anathem a couple times now. I own Snow Crash and The Diamond Age in first editions. I cannot imagine re-reading Seveneves; it was both not a totally flawed plot (a quality I can ordinarily forgive in a Stephenson novel -- I love a good yarn) and it killed everyone I know and love, in an immediate near future sense, on the page in front of me. It was, for lack of a better description, a callous novel.