By Neal Stephenson
From the number one long island occasions bestselling writer of Anatham, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exhilarating and thought-provoking technological know-how fiction epic—a grand tale of annihilation and survival spanning 5 thousand years.
What might occur if the realm have been ending?
A catastrophic occasion renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race opposed to the inevitable, countries worldwide band jointly to plan an bold plan to make sure the survival of humanity a long way past our surroundings, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unexpected demanding situations and hazards threaten the intrepid pioneers, until eventually just a handful of survivors stay . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven targeted races now 3 billion strong—embark on yet one more audacious trip into the unknown . . . to an alien global totally remodeled through cataclysm and time: Earth.
A author of amazing genius and ingenious imaginative and prescient, Neal Stephenson combines technological know-how, philosophy, know-how, psychology, and literature in an impressive paintings of speculative fiction that gives a portrait of a destiny that's either impressive and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores a few of our greatest rules and confusing demanding situations in a wide ranging saga that's bold, engrossing, and altogether amazing.
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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.
Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.
Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.