![]() ![]() Steve Paulson: Your book begins with the news that one day, without warning, the moon blows up and all kinds of catastrophic events follow. You can subscribe to the TTBOOK podcast here. Our conversation aired on Public Radio International’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. I talked with Stephenson about the world-building responsibility of science fiction writers, his dislike of dystopian fiction, and why we need new stories to help us create a better future. He also has plenty to say about human relationships aboard a spacecraft and what our future might look like thousands of years from now. But this isn’t just a manual on how to carry on after the apocalypse. Strictly as an exercise in visionary technology, it’s a virtuoso performance. ![]() In his new science fiction book Seveneves, Stephenson lays out a scenario for how humanity could survive a catastrophic natural disaster. He’s famous not only for his supersized books (the last three clocking in between 850 and 1,050 pages) he’s also made a career of unpacking Big Ideas on everything from modernity and the nature of time to nanotechnology and our genetically-engineered future. There’s nothing pint-sized about Neal Stephenson. ![]()
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