History Literature / Seveneves

* Retirony: [[spoiler: Inverted, Doc Dubois survives to see ''Endurance'' landed on Cleft and succumbs to his cancer shortly after a spacewalk to see it there.]]

* SexIsEvil: [[spoiler: The Diggers had to maintain a strict population control during the Heavy Rain... no more than 30 or so people alive at any time. After the contraceptives ran out, promoting abstinence became the only non-radical way of achieving that.]]

** [[Fortunately, five thousand years later populations have rebounded to the point where this trope is a thing of the past. Among the Spacers of both the Red and Blue factions, women in combat is not something to blink twice at, no particular difference is made over gender when protecting non-combatants in survival situations, and even the patriarchal Diggers with their population explosion do not seem to consider their women vulnerable enough to bother to hide them away when making accidental first contact with the Spacers on their way to meet up with the Pingers. Pingers who, incidently, bring a woman along on a potentially very dangerous first contact meeting as well, making it likely that their society also subverts this trope.]]

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'''Seveneves''' is a novel by Creator/NealStephenson describing humanity's efforts to deal with a {{Detonation Moon}} of unknown origin and the ensuing 5,000 years of biological, societal, cultural, and technological change.* ActualPacifist: Camilla believes aggression is an inherently bad human trait [[spoiler: and passes that belief onto all of her progeny.]]
* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler: Only without the Adam, and starts 2/3 of the way through the book. The problems with inbreeding are mitigated by having a world-class geneticist on han

'''Seveneves''' is a novel by Creator/NealStephenson describing humanity's efforts to deal with a {{Detonation Moon}} of unknown origin and the ensuing 5,000 years of biological, societal, cultural, and technological change.

* ActualPacifist: Camilla believes aggression is an inherently bad human trait [[spoiler: and passes that belief onto all of her progeny.]]
* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler: Only without the Adam, and starts 2/3 of the way through the book. The problems with inbreeding are mitigated by having a world-class geneticist on hand for the process.]]

* CoolOldGuy: Dr Hu Nova.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never ''really'' find out what happened to the Mars colonists. I could be implied that the mission was a failure due to solar flares, or NoOneCouldSurviveThat, etc - but we're still never told outright. Could have been a SequelHook that was never followed.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never ''really'' find out what happened to the Mars colonists. I could be implied that the mission was a failure due to solar flares, etc - but we're still not told outright. Could have been a SequelHook that was never followed.

* InfoDump: All over the place.

* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler: Only without the Adam. The problems with inbreeding are mitigated by having a world-class geneticist on hand for the process.]]

* TheyDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo: [[spoiler: The micro-chips and the wireless tech of the Spacers.]]

* NextSundayAD: The various private and national space programs featured at the start of the novel are more or less identical to their real world counterparts at the time of publication. As the [[DeathFromAbove Hard Rain]] approaches, the sheer resources and effort devoted to the Cloud Ark program make it seem more like [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]]. [[spoiler:The third part of the book is set approximately 5,000 years after that.]]

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler: Aïda's curse ensures that all of her descendants will be treated with contempt by the other six races.]]

* NextSundayAD: The various private and national space programs featured at the start of the novel are more or less identical to their real world counterparts at the time of publication. As the [[DeathFromAbove Hard Rain]] approaches, the sheer resources and effort devoted to the Cloud Ark program make it seem more like [[Twenty Minutes into the Future]]. [[spoiler: The third part of the book is set approximately 5,000 years after that.]]

* UnderwaterCity: [[spoiler: Kulak of the Red is that, at least during construction. And though we never see it, it's clear the Pingers have created a major underwater civilization substantially larger than that of the Diggers, though still much smaller than that of the Spacers]]

* AristocratsAreEvil: The only remnants of Aristocracy [[spoiler: on the Ring Habitat are Aritaics, a subrace of Aïdans, almost universally allied with the Red]].
** They're only considered evil inasmuch as they are in a faction opposed to the protagonists of the novel; we don't see much actual badness from them.