It was also included in the best nominations for the Hugo Award in 2016.Ī film adaptation of the best-selling novel has been announced. The novel became the recipient of the Prometheus Award in 2016. Bill Gates names the novel as a must-read for 2016.
Booklist also praised the book was being a wholesome reading experience. Many leading publications like Chicago Tribune, the guardian, and publisher’s weekly issued statements praising the novel. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.The book managed to garner positive responses by both the critics as well as the audiences. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.īut the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain.įive thousand years later, their progeny - seven distinct races now three billion strong - embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown.to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.Ī writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. What would happen if the world were ending?Ī catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic - a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
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