Seveneves: A Novel

matter. Seeing her, talking to her, makes you feel bad. And at some level, your brain wants the thing that makes you feel bad to go away. Simplest reaction in the world. Doesn’t make you a bad person. Doesn’t mean you have to give in to it.”

and Dinah felt the awareness of her own throat that would culminate, five minutes from now, in vomiting.

bungalow half digested by blackberries and English ivy.

But it was a little bit out of step with the modern ethos. Correction: with the modern ethos as it had existed during the Age of the One Moon. It was perfectly in step with how things were now.

the mind worked. The

But this wasn’t that. It wasn’t J.B.F. asking herself did he interrupt me because I’m a woman? They were past all of that now. This was her asking herself did he interrupt me because the president of the United States doesn’t matter anymore?

“NONE OF YOU WILL EVER STAND ON TERRA FIRMA, TOUCH YOUR loved ones, or breathe the atmosphere of your mother planet again,”

and fell in love with her. This was unusual. He had not been in love with anyone in twelve years.

Their reporters stood in pools of light, using as backdrop an open green strewn with telescopes of various types and sizes. Little seven-card decks were handed out, each card depicting a different fragment of the moon from various angles and identifying it by its name. Kids were given the assignment to identify each of the rocks through the eyepiec