Comment on The Sounds of Silence
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 week agoI have a book sort of like this. SevenEves by Niel Stephenson.
The book blows up (or gets hit or something). The dist will make earth uninhabitable within a few years. I want to say Seven Years. I remeber the SevenEves title has many possible “meanings” and I think years to collapse was one.
They basically work to get as many people as they can, which isn’t many, into space working with the small crew of a (larger than ISS but not huge) space station. Including all of the logistics of food and housing.
The first two thirds are pretty good, the lattwr third jump to the future and fallout and I hated that part, but the first part is good.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Like most of Neals books I found this book long and meandering, so I dropped it after a while, just wish he could better edit and pace his books. I enjoyed snow crash but every book of his I’ve tried since I could not finish.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 days ago
I agree with this.
If you want someone with similar style stories that is less wandering, try Daniel Suarez.