Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/6/2024 3:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/6/2024 3:40 AM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 5 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

“SEVENEVES at Legendary”
  https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/seveneves-at-legendary
 Might be a good tv series.  Will be at least three seasons if it makes it.
 I love the illustration of the cradle.
 Lynn
 

 Sigh... why would they make 3 seasons of a book that one reads in a few days? It will only be like the Hobbit a long and tedious wait between actual scenes from the book. =(
 But I do think that seveneves fits perfectly in the current times of trans and woke:ism, as well as exploring questions about survival. I think it will be a big hit with the progressive crowd!

 I made it three seasons since there are three parts to the book.  Now, two years from now, and 5,000 years from now.

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I personally think its one of Stephenson's weakest works. Too much
stuff is made unnecessarily implausible without even an attempt
at explanation.
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There is a some really neat worldbuilding, but by the time we got
there, my WSOD was completely gone.
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I found the book alright. 3.5 out of 5. Too much descriptions, but that is Stephensons style, so by only reading quotes, the book became much better. ;)
Early Stephenson the diamond age, cryptonomicon, and a third one I don't recall at the moment, are my favourites.