Not so much in just the number of pages (only 862) as in the scale of the story. In the first instance, the “it” in Neal Stephenson has done it again is Stephenson’s new book, Seveneves. If not, just go read Seveneves and you probably will be. It will help a great deal if you are a Neal Stephenson fan. Ultimately, that dance is the “it” we will be spending the most time with. He keeps denying it all, but he keeps dropping in words that belong to established religions, especially Christianity. No, this essay is about Stephenson and religion. It isn’t about his characters which-especially the seven women who serve as the “Eves” of the human race-really hold the book together when the technovision does not. It isn’t about Stephenson’s technical vision, which is daring. It is not a spoiler any more than the dust jacket description is a spoiler. There is a cluster of notions swirling around and I am counting on “it” to hold still so I can capture a few of them.īefore we get into that, I want to tell you what kind of essay this is. The key word in this essay is going to be “it,” apparently.
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