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I'm enjoying the story, though I have major technical objections.
I can't see that it is possible to break the Moon into 7 big pieces - fragmentation would start immediately.
If it were possible it would take hours at most, not 7 days, for scientists to note the inevitable catastrophe.
It's orders of magnitude easier to survive underground in bunkers than in space.
— Feb 26, 2026 11:13AM
I can't see that it is possible to break the Moon into 7 big pieces - fragmentation would start immediately.
If it were possible it would take hours at most, not 7 days, for scientists to note the inevitable catastrophe.
It's orders of magnitude easier to survive underground in bunkers than in space.
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Feb 26, 2026 11:21AM
I found this like a lot of Stephenson books, incredible ideas but not much to get your teeth into somehow. I didn’t hate it but, like Cryptonomicon, I felt I was eating an enormous bowl of stew which had every ingredient in the kitchen thrown into it - a bit of restraint might have made it more palatable.
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I had to read this outdoors on a day where the moon was visible the whole afternoon and I could keep an eye on her because it made me so anxious. A big change from all the swashbuckling and syphilus of the Baroque Saga!
until I get a definitive denial from the author, I'm going to hold on to my pet theory that the basic idea is a tribute to Douglas Adams' description of the band Disaster Area:"Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason"
