I just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson yesterday. Honestly, it's going to take some time to parse out what I really thought of the novel, but my first impression relates to "The pain and the ecstasy" of reading modern Stephenson work. He gets so, so, so lost in the minutia of the technologies he creates for his scenarios, he will often forget how to bring the reader back to the social aspect of his narrative, but the narrative can be so good. It's nerdcool done right. The last book in the novel actually had some very solid worldbuilding behind the narrative (much more so than Anathem). I hope he revisits this setting at some point. Now then, as much as I enjoy Stephenson, I think I need to cleanse my palate with something decidedly less technically oriented.