书名：Seveneves 七夏娃
作者：Neal Stephenson 
出版社名称：William Morrow
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062334510
商品尺寸：13.5 x3.7 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：870

Seveneves《七夏娃》是美国科幻作家尼尔·史蒂芬森（Neal Stephenson）的新作。1999年美国《时代》周刊评选出50位数字英雄，列举当今世界技术创新上的杰出人物，40岁的史蒂芬森入选其中，其理由是他的书塑造和影响了整整一批IT人。他在小说中混入了大量历史、人类学、语言学、考古学、宗教、计算机、政治、哲学和地理的内容，形成一个亦幻亦真的世界，其风格鲜明。
推荐理由：
1.比尔·盖茨夏季推荐书单榜首，入围2016年雨果奖提名；
2.语言活泼而富于黑色幽默，同时充满了惊险刺激的抓人情节；
3.奥斯卡金像奖导演朗·霍华德（Ron Howard）将和他《阿波罗十三》的原班人马共同打造Seveneves这部太空史诗，将它搬上大银幕，他的“想象娱乐”（Imagine Entertainment）公司也将参与制作；
4.本书为英文原版，文字难度不大，高中以上程度可读懂。
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.
President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice and recently optioned by Ron Howard and IMAGINE to be made into a major motion picture.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that isboth extraordinary and eerily recognizable.As he did inAnathem,Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, andReamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant. 
Praise forSeveneves
Selected byTIME magazine as one of the Top 10 Books of 2015 Named as one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year 2015
“No slim fables or nerdy novellas for Stephenson : his visions are epic, and he requires whole worlds—and, in this case, solar systems—to accommodate them.... Wise, witty, utterly well-crafted science fiction.”  —Kirkus Reviews
“Stephenson’s remarkable novel is deceptively complex, a disaster story and transhumanism tale that serves as the delivery mechanism for a series of technical and sociological visions...There’s a ton to digest, but Stephenson’s lucid prose makes it worth the while.”   —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The huge scope and enormous depth of the latest novel from Stephenson is impressive.... A major work of hard sf that all fans of the genre should read.”  —Library Journal (starred review)
"Well-paced over three parts covering 5,000 years of humanity’sfuture, Stephenson’s monster of a book is likely to dominate your2015 sf-reading experience.”   —Booklist
“[Stephenson] plays with hardballistics, hard genetics, hard sociology. And what thrills me, is that he makes it interesting. That he makes life and death in space about actual life and death.” —NPR Books
“Written in a wrp, erudite voice…Seveneves will please fans of hard sciencefiction, but this witty, epic tale is also sure to win over readers new to Stephenson’s work.”  — Washington Post
“Fascinating… Insights into the human character shine like occasional full moons.” —Boston Globe

  一股不明力量让月球碎裂，分成了七块。科学家经过计算发现，月球碎片将为地球带来灾变，人类面临灭绝危机。于是各国政府联手，建造了“云端方舟”（Cloud Ark）太空站，选择1500多人登上方舟，以延续人类的火种。然而由于种种原因，这些人后只活下了八个，全部都是女性，且其中还有一个已经绝经。
  七个可以生育的女性幸存者决定，用单性繁殖加上基因改造的方式来延续人类，她们被称为“七夏娃”（Seven Eves）。五千年后，这七个女人的后代达到了30亿之众，他们继承了七夏娃各自的特征，形成了七大种族。
  太空人类决定重返地球家园，但时间已经将这里变得面目全非。更麻烦的是，当年的灾难中还幸存下来一部分地球人，他们有的躲在地洞、有的逃到海下逃过一劫，五千年中已经走上了与太空人类迥然不同的进化道路。七夏娃的后代与这些地球人建立了联系，但沟通不畅导致的误解让他们产生了新的冲突。
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. 
But the complexities and unpredictability ofhuman nature coupled withunforeseenchallenges anddangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain… Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong— embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown… to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. 

尼尔•史蒂芬森1959年10月31日出生于美国的马里兰州，是美国著名的赛伯朋克流科幻作家，在当今被电脑培养起来的IT一代人群中，他享有不朽的声誉。同时，除了小说，他还频繁涉足于技术领域，担任公司顾问，并为各类杂志撰写了大量技术文献。1984年以来，斯蒂芬森主要住在太平洋的西北地区，目前居住在西雅图。他的主要作品有：《大学》（The Big U, 1984）、《佐迪亚克》（Zoidac, 1988）、《雪崩》（Snow Crash, 1992）、《钻石时代》（The Diamond Age, 1995）、《编码宝典》（Cryptonomicon, 1996）、《怪人》（Quicksilver, 2003）、《混淆》（The Confusion, 2004）、《世界系统》（The System of the World, 2004）。 
Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

  THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero.
  An amateur astronomer in Utah was thefirst person on Earth to realize that something unusual was happening. Moments earlier, he had noticed a blurflourishing in the vicinity of the Reiner Gamma formation, near the moon’s equator. He assumed it was a dust cloud thrown up by a meteor strike. He pulled out his phone and blogged the event, moving his stiff thumbs (for he was high on a mountain and the air was as cold as it was clear) as fast as he could to secure the claim to himself. Other astronomers would soon be pointing their telescopes at the same dust cloud