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Have you looked at Seveneves? I really enjoyed the first half, never finished the second half. Never really liked Diamond Age, but really liked Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. I have Termination Shock queued up, will see how that goes. The description of this one didn't sound interesting to me.

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The first and second half of Seveneves felt like two different books, each written by a different author. The second half, in my opinion, does not come close to the quality of the first.

That effectively sums it up for me as well. I enjoyed the hard-ish sci-fi of the first half, then it turn into some speculative future storyline and I lost interest 5 mins in.

No, just the synopsis. He lost me at Reamde to be honest.

The first half is pretty good hard-ish sci-fi, might be worth checking out.

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