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Neal Stephenson

Moon explosion

Sci-Fi novelist Neal Stephenson blows up the moon — and reshapes humanity

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There are some famous first lines in novels so succinct, or even jarring, that they make their way into literary history — “Call me Ishmael.” Or even, “It was a dark and stormy night.” SciFi writer Neal Stephenson, author of the new novel, Seveneves, has written a new first line that might get added to the pantheon.

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