Seveneves

"This book highlights how humans can adapt to what would seem to be an impossible survival circumstance. I’m not giving anything away, because it’s in the first two pages, but the moon is shattered and is eventually going to land on the Earth with a huge barrage of asteroids. In the first third of the book, everyone’s trying to figure out how to survive. Some people go to space, some people go deep underground. It really highlights the fragility of our planet. It’s something I think about a lot, with almost everything I look at. I’m not really a depressive person. You think I’d be really sad all the time but I view it as enabling and a good reminder to work faster. Yes, it could be an asteroid or some other cataclysmic climate event. Think about the hole in the ozone layer with CFCs. We tackled that problem, but what if we hadn’t figured it out till it was too late and we had no ozone layer? It’d be a very different world we’d be living in now. There’s are plenty of ways we can screw things up and plenty of ways we can fix them, too."