re: Seveneves - Neal Stephenson

Crazy that you post this; for whatever reason I was thinking about this book this morning while walking the dog.

The story is great. I think the book gets a little bogged down in the technical details though. And its not so much that its too technical, but more of the author's need to explain these details to the reader. Like every time someone throws out a sciencey sounding term, the author stops the story to say something like "What he meant by this is that Delta V is a measure of the impulse per unit of spacecraft mass that is needed to perform a maneuver such as launching from or landing on a planet or moon, or an in-space orbital maneuver."

Other than that small complaint, the book was fantastic. I especially liked reading how human society has re-formed since the Seven Eves started reproducing. And how there are different factions based on the offspring of a particular Eve.