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My first thought was of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - not perhaps his best book but it did clarify the value of mining near Earth objects :-)
by 2sk21 8y ago
My first thought was of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - not perhaps his best book but it did clarify the value of mining near Earth objects :-)
- TomK32 8y agoThe first two parts are great. Rip out the third one. But Seveneves was about using the resources of the broken up moon, which is pretty much like hopping onto the bus (on the middle lane of a three-lane-highway) compared to the challenges of getting an asteroid into earth orbit
- koboll 8y agoWhat a great book. I still get chills thinking about the way he describes the danger of alpha particles.
- TomK32 8y agoSure, but tbh, if he had split it up into three novels and give more time to the second and third part it might climed up to the hill-top from which, in my opinion, The Long Earth rules this decade of SciFi writing.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIn my view he should have written a fourth part. I would have been very curious how the people who stayed on earth survived in their caves and under water.
- MrMember 8y agoThe underwater group especially interests me. How do a group of people stuck in a submarine in deep ocean survive for centuries?