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Seveneves
Has anyone read this? Is it worth large amount of time I assume it will require? I very much liked 'Anathem' but Neal Stephenson books can be a bit dense.

Has anyone read this? Is it worth large amount of time I assume it will require? I very much liked 'Anathem' but Neal Stephenson books can be a bit dense.
It's pretty determined to make you care about orbital mechanics. Pretty hard sci-fi, all in all, but there's some interesting character interplay in here as well. And politics. Pretty Stephenson-ish, all in all!
I liked it enough to have bought it after reading it from the library. This was the first Neal Stephenson book I'd tried so I can't make a comparison. I do love hard scifi. This was technically dense at times but not so far over my head that I couldn't follow it. I was hooked from the first sentence, to where I could hardly put it down. I read it cover to cover in just three days.
I read this and really liked it. The book is dense, but a cracking story that moves fast -- more "Reamde" or "Cryptonomicon" than "Anathem." The first part is very "The Martian" with people using science to improve their situation. The second part is very different -- more like "Anathem" I guess, but for me was a good payoff.
despite its page count, it was a very quick read in the best hard sf tradition. the story felt more focussed than reamde/cn, and definitely less dense than anathem.