The astounding new novel from your get good at of science fiction.

Chief executive Barack Obama’s summer season reading choice and recently optioned by Ron Howard and IMAGINE to be made into a main motion picture.

What would happen if the world were ending?

Whenever a catastrophic event renders the planet earth a ticking period bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to guarantee the survival of humanity much beyond our atmosphere. But unexpected risks about Seveneves threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a small number of survivors remain…

Five thousand years later, their progeny – seven specific races now 3 billion strong – embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown, for an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.

A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is simultaneously remarkable and eerily recognizable. He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that’s daring, engrossing, and entirely brilliant.