Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson

For her family—though she’d never had an inkling of it until then—was well off.

No inkling, but you and your siblings had private tutors and traveled often (if only for parents work)? Bffr

Doob said, “My best estimate is that it will last somewhere between five thousand and ten thousand years.”

Oh!

Once they got to the training center, they would begin to understand that not all of them were actually going to get launched into space before the Hard Rain. It would get competitive. Perhaps brutally so. Doob didn’t like to think about it.

The 100 but reversed lol

He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.

Scratching my head at this one ngl lol

The Vestibyul was barely large enough to accommodate a supine human. At one end was a flange that mated with the forty-centimeter ring on a Luk. Having slithered feetfirst from the Luk into the Vestibyul, a cosmonaut had just enough wiggle room to get his feet aimed down the legs of the Orlan suit that was attached to the other end, its door hanging open. Before doing this, however, he would seal off the Luk by manually putting its diaphragm into position and bolting it into place with a ratchet wrench.

I've just realized that this entire section (including the paragraphs that came before it and the ones that will come after) is an explanation for why this book is nearly 900 pages. Theres so much exposition and technical detail, it reads more like a manual than a story at some points. Bring back the plot Neal, stop playing with me. Im not here to learn about how a space man gets into his space suit (unless this info is somehow relevant to the plot, which i doubt.)

There were a number of catches.

And hes gonna explain them all in unnecessary detail. *eye roll*

Tav smiled in a way that seemed a little forced. You don’t get what I’m saying, do you? He said, “Look, you know my views on the Singularity. On uploading.”

Tav is a TESCREAList?

No one had ever really expected Ulrika to get picked, however. The choice was explained in terms of Markus’s dynamic leadership style, his charisma, and other such buzzwords that, as everyone understood, boiled down to the fact that he was a man.

Ofc eye roll

By the mundane standards of Izzy gossip, her dalliance with Rhys Aitken had been sensational, their eventual breakup a big story, detailed in London tabloids. After that she’d been unable to have coffee with any male crew member without stirring up more whispers.

Even in space, women cant just BE

“Let’s be clear, Markus, I have baggage too. I’m a brown Spanish speaker from South America. I devoted years of my life to hanging out with refugees on boats. And I’m a Jew. That’s my baggage, okay?”

MAybe im misunderstanding, but how is any of that "baggage"?

There was nothing about this place that tickled the nerve endings that mattered to people who wanted to start families.

What a funny way of putting it

ANY CURVE YOU COULD MAKE BY SLICING A CONE WITH A PLANE—A circle, an ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola—could be the shape of an orbit. For practical purposes, though, all orbits were ellipses.

And the following paragraphs: at what point is this just a physics textbook? At what point is he just sharing almost all he knows about astrophyics?

THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006,

Ngl Neal, maybe it should've remained a premise...