William Morrow Co</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p>SEVENEVES was included on President Obama's Summer 2016 reading list.</p><p>SEVENEVES was one of only five books recommended by Bill Gates as "must reads" for Summer 2016.</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><p><strong> An Amazon Best Book of May 2015:</strong> Stephenson is not afraid of writing big books?big in page count?? big in concept?? and big in their long-lingering effect on the reader??s mind. Newcomers to Stephenson should reject any trepidation. This science-fueled saga spans millennia?? but make no mistake: The heart of this story is its all-too-human heroes and how their choices?? good and ill?? forge the future of our species. <em>Seveneves</em> launches into action with the disintegration of the moon. Initially considered only a cosmetic?? not cosmic?? change to the skies?? the moon??s breakup is soon identified as the spawning ground of a meteor shower dubbed the Hard Rain that will bombard Earth for thousands of years?? extinguishing all life from the surface of the planet. Now humanity has only two y