Seveneves - A Hét Éva

by Neal Stephenson

Overview

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&quo;A Hold mindenféle előjel és látható ok nélkül robbant fel."

A Föld napjai meg vannak számlálva. A világ nemzetei az elkerülhetetlennel és a vészesen fogyó idővel versengve összefognak, hogy nagyszabású tervet dolgozzanak ki az emberiség megmentésére - messze a légkör felett, a bolygóközi űrben.

A maroknyi, gondosan kiválasztott túlélőnek előre nem látott technikai veszélyekkel és kihívásokkal, újabb és újabb katasztrófákkal kell szembenéznie. A könyörtelen univerzum a végsőkig próbára teszi találékonyságukat és felkészültségüket az űrben lebegő törékeny komplexumban, amely az emberi faj túlélésének utolsó záloga.

Azonban mégis az emberi természet árnyoldalai és kiszámíthatatlansága válik végső próbatételükké. A Nemzetközi Űrállomás legénységének önmagát kell legyőznie igazán. A kozmikus kataklizma és az eltelt évszázadok alatt a felismerhetetlenségig összeégett anyabolygó pedig türelmesen vár a visszatérésükre...

A Hét Éva pedig válaszol hívására.

Neal Stephenson nem csupán író, hanem elismert tudós szaktekintély is: többek között az Amazon alapítója, a futurista Jeff Bezos Blue Origin nevű cégénél is dolgozott, ahol a szuborbitális pályára való utazás módszereit segített kidolgozni. Jelen kötetben A marsihoz hasonlóan létező, és precíz tudományos tényekből indult ki, amelyeket közérthetően interpretál. A tudományos fantasztikumot filozófiával, technikai leírásokkal, pszichológiával és magas irodalommal vegyíti ebben a rendkívül ötletgazdag regényben, amelynek jövőképe egyszerre különleges és hátborzongatóan ismerős.

Neal Stephenson a Hugo-díj birtokosa és többszörös Clarke Award, illetve ötszörös Locus SF Award díjnyertes, káprázatos képzelőerejű írózseni.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786155514609
Publisher:	Fumax
Publication date:	04/29/2016
Series:	Seveneves - A Hét Éva
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

In Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash, human beings can immerse themselves in a computer-generated universe, and computer viruses can infect human bodies. This blurring of the boundaries between silicon and flesh seems characteristic of Stephenson, a writer whose interests in technology and engineering are inseparable from his skills as a storyteller.

Here is a novelist who talks about the "data management problem" of writing a historical novel, and who apologizes for not responding to fan mail by explaining that he has an "irremediable numerical imbalance between outgoing and incoming bandwidth."

Indeed, Stephenson seems to have a computer metaphor for almost every aspect of the writing life, even when he's not using a computer to write. He wrote the manuscript for Quicksilver in longhand, using a fountain pen. With this slower method of putting words to paper, he explained in an interview with Tech Central Station, "It's like when you're writing, there's a kind of buffer in your head where the next sentence sits while you're outputting the last one."

"Paper," Stephenson adds, is "a really good technology."

As the author of Snow Crash, Stephenson became a cult hero to cyberpunk fans and an inspiration to Silicon Valley start-ups. His Metaverse was the Internet as cutting-edge carnival, a freewheeling digital universe where a pizza-delivery driver could become a samurai warrior. "This is cyberpunk as it ought to be, and almost never is," wrote David Barrett in New Scientist.

Stephenson followed Snow Crash with The Diamond Age, which Publishers Weekly described as "simultaneously SF, fantasy and a masterful political thriller." Stephenson then broke out of the science fiction genre with Cryptonomicon, a 928-page doorstop of a book that drew comparisons to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Cryptonomicon interweaves two cryptography-themed plots, one set in the 1990s and the other during World War II. "What cyberculture needs right now is not another science-fiction novel but its first great historical novel, and Cryptonomicon is it: an intimate genealogical portrait of the 20th century's computer geeks, great and small, and of the technosocial landscape they have more and less knowingly shaped," wrote Julian Dibbell in The Village Voice.

Hefty though it is, Cryptonomicon is a quick read compared to Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, which begins with Quicksilver and continues in two more volumes, The Confusion and The System of the World.

In Quicksilver, a historical novel set in the 17th century, Stephenson explores many of the roots of modern science, mixing meditations on calculus, chemistry and cryptography with a cast of oddball characters (and many of the real-life historical figures, including Isaac Newton, turn out to be very odd indeed).

"At first it feels like Stephenson is flaunting how much time he spent at the library, but the lure of the next wisecracking history lesson becomes the most compelling reason to keep going," wrote Slate reviewer Paul Boutin.

So how did Stephenson manage all that historical data?

"I started with a bunch of notebooks, just composition books, in which I would write notes down in chronological order as I read a particular book, or what have you," he explained in an interview on his publisher's Web site.

"Those are always there, and I can go back to them and look stuff up even when it's otherwise lost. Then, I've got timelines and timetables showing what happens when in the story. I've spent a while monkeying around with three ring binders, in which I glue pages here and there trying to figure out how to sequence things. It's a big mess. It's a big pile of stationery. Many trips to the office supply store, and many failed attempts. But in the end, as long as you can keep it in your head, that's the easiest way to manage something like this. You can move things around inside your head more easily than you can shuffle papers or cross things out on a page and rewrite them."

The three-pound processor inside the author's head, as it turns out, is a really good technology.

Hometown:

Seattle, Washington

Date of Birth:

October 31, 1959

Place of Birth:

Fort Meade, Maryland

Education:

B.A., Boston University, 1981

Website:

http://www.nealstephenson.com