Seveneves - Book Review
Seveneves - by Neal Stephenson - is a SF novel. I'm already a big fan of the author - specially because of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, so once I saw the blurb that was distributed some weeks before the release I just had to get it. The main event that starts the story is that somehow, the moon is destroyed and break ups in several pieces. Which are constantly bumping into each other and breaking up. Soon enough they realize that Earth is going to get a nice set of rings, like Saturn. However, a lot of those pieces are going to start falling and the whole is planet is going to burn for thousands of years. Now their only chance is to Exit Earth into space... or go deep underground or in the ocean. The whole thing reminds me a lot of Exit Earth by Martin Caidin, where the solar system passed through a slightly denser cloud of dust, which just happens to make the sun burns hotter and gets you the same effect - i.e. scorched Earth. The ways they use to try to escape is simil...