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.
I think I just picked that up at a thrift store. I'm in the middle of his book, "Anathem" and I'm loving every minute of it. Can you synopsize Seveneves without spoiling it? There are two books in the way before I get to it, but I'm lovin' me Stephenson right now.
Sorry, I'm on my phone so this will have to be brief. Seveneves is a novel in three parts, all three of which is spurred by the catastrophic destruction of the Earth's moon. The three parts could be summarized as: the exodus of Earth, the initial plight of the survivors and the eventual return to Earth.