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DanInBham1 t1_ja8xepd wrote

You should read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. ISS gets turned into a ship and they create artificial gravity. Great book. Underrated and underread.

And the moon blows up

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niallo_ t1_ja91evp wrote

I really really hated the President in that book!

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clpatterson t1_ja970cp wrote

I read 7/8ths of it. Once the time jump happened, it didn't even seem like the same book and I couldn't get invested in why I should care about that act of the story considering how few pages were left in the book. I just kind of set it down and never picked it back up.

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DanInBham1 t1_ja9bqna wrote

The last part is definitely a totally different story. I ended up really liking it though. It does get really technical about explaining some of the technology. But I thought it was really interesting the way he played with social and cultural evolution.

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wilcan t1_ja98374 wrote

I felt the same way but ended up enjoying the far future world even more. I want him to write novels describing the other tribes’ experience through the calamity.

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DanInBham1 t1_ja9bwax wrote

I agree. I would love to read some short stories about the other survivors.

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wilcan t1_ja97vii wrote

To be fair, Stephenson had them add an entirely new module with a rotating ring that attached to a reconfigured ISS. He didn’t add artificial gravity to the existing ISS.

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DanInBham1 t1_ja9cum9 wrote

With the bolos they tethered modules together and made them do somersaults to create gravity. I don’t remember if they used existing modules or not. But you are correct. There were two tori connected to the ISS that had gravity. The ISS as a whole didn’t have artificial gravity.

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