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On 8/6/2024 3:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 8/6/2024 3:40 AM, D wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> “SEVENEVES at Legendary”
>>>   https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/seveneves-at-legendary
>>>
>>> Might be a good tv series.  Will be at least three seasons if it 
>>> makes it.
>>>
>>> I love the illustration of the cradle.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sigh... why would they make 3 seasons of a book that one reads in a 
>> few days? It will only be like the Hobbit a long and tedious wait 
>> between actual scenes from the book. =(
>>
>> But I do think that seveneves fits perfectly in the current times of 
>> trans and woke:ism, as well as exploring questions about survival. I 
>> think it will be a big hit with the progressive crowd!
> 
> I made it three seasons since there are three parts to the book.  Now, 
> two years from now, and 5,000 years from now.

I personally think its one of Stephenson's weakest works. Too much
stuff is made unnecessarily implausible without even an attempt
at explanation.

There is a some really neat worldbuilding, but by the time we got
there, my WSOD was completely gone.

pt