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Man, and I thought 'Seveneves' was a quick one, fast moving. Should I see a doctor? I honestly didn't realize others saw it that way. Now I'm worried. Lol,

Man, and I thought 'Seveneves' was a quick one, fast moving. Should I see a doctor? I honestly didn't realize others saw it that way. Now I'm worried. Lol, if you like Stephenson, you might need help.

abraxas 3y ago
Pages and pages treatises about orbital mechanics, PhD dissertation on how space station docking works. Seveneves fast paced? yeah, no.
Mountain_Skies 3y ago
To me, 'Seveneves' took longer than usual to world build and get things going. Once it got going after 'the event', things moved along as a pretty good clip. Don't know if he has any plans to revisit that world but it would be interesting to explore things from after the time jump in more detail.
- 2024throwaway 3y ago
  "The event" happens in the first sentence of the book.
  - ckozlowski 3y ago
    I'm pretty sure OP is referring to either the ramifications of that event (the climax of part 1), or perhaps the end of part 1 which sets part 2 in motion (with a drastic change in focus). I'm being deliberately vague in order to not reveal spoilers.
exe34 3y ago
Autism, like most personality traits in the DSM, is only a problem if it affects your every day life in three spheres (e.g. work/relationships/hobbies). Otherwise you might just have the superpowers without the side-effects.
nottorp 3y ago
I couldn't finish Seveneves :) In spite of reading and mostly liking everything else by Stephenson. Edit: but then I couldn't enjoy Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series (I did get to the end) too much. Because half the book was a RPG system manual describing game mechanics. Think that was my problem with Seveneves as well. It read like a 'how to build and run a space station' manual.
jes5199 3y ago
for years, every time I tried read Seveneves I got bored before I even found out what the plot was. There's something about the description of the ISS that I find tedious even by Stevenson standards
gensym 3y ago
LOL. I read REAMDE on Kindle, so I didn't know its length. I thought it was a rollicking good time, and I recommended it to my wife for her book club. I assumed it was about 300 pages long. Turns out it's over 1000.
- themadturk 3y ago
  But it's a fast thousand pages.

abraxas 3y ago

Pages and pages treatises about orbital mechanics, PhD dissertation on how space station docking works. Seveneves fast paced? yeah, no.

Mountain_Skies 3y ago

To me, 'Seveneves' took longer than usual to world build and get things going. Once it got going after 'the event', things moved along as a pretty good clip. Don't know if he has any plans to revisit that world but it would be interesting to explore things from after the time jump in more detail.

2024throwaway 3y ago
"The event" happens in the first sentence of the book.
- ckozlowski 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure OP is referring to either the ramifications of that event (the climax of part 1), or perhaps the end of part 1 which sets part 2 in motion (with a drastic change in focus). I'm being deliberately vague in order to not reveal spoilers.

exe34 3y ago

Autism, like most personality traits in the DSM, is only a problem if it affects your every day life in three spheres (e.g. work/relationships/hobbies). Otherwise you might just have the superpowers without the side-effects.

nottorp 3y ago

I couldn't finish Seveneves :) In spite of reading and mostly liking everything else by Stephenson. Edit: but then I couldn't enjoy Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series (I did get to the end) too much. Because half the book was a RPG system manual describing game mechanics. Think that was my problem with Seveneves as well. It read like a 'how to build and run a space station' manual.

jes5199 3y ago

for years, every time I tried read Seveneves I got bored before I even found out what the plot was. There's something about the description of the ISS that I find tedious even by Stevenson standards

gensym 3y ago

LOL. I read REAMDE on Kindle, so I didn't know its length. I thought it was a rollicking good time, and I recommended it to my wife for her book club. I assumed it was about 300 pages long. Turns out it's over 1000.

themadturk 3y ago
But it's a fast thousand pages.