6/11/2023 0 Comments Seveneves goodreads![]() Anyway, the Yanks beat the Chinese to the thing, and basically stitch them up so the Chinese don't get as much cool stuff. The American President, back on earth, is quite a horrible bastard, but she's well characterised. Descending into spoiler territory a little, you've got an American craft and an enemy-du-jour craft (in this book it's the Chinese) racing to get to the Space Thingy. there's a weird "America! Fuck yeah!" feeling about that. This is the second book recently (after Neal Stephenson's Seveneves) to try to make me care about orbital mechanics is this a response to humanity's lack of space travel recently? Anyway, the story's pretty compelling, and I very much like the idea of what the Space Thingy turns out to be. ![]() Although I might be being unfair to JS there. ![]() Or, more accurately I think, Sandford does a story and Ctein goes back over all the sentences and replaces "(description of how spaceships manoeuvre)" with an actual description in laborious detail. ![]()
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