Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

By aaron.axvig , Mon, 01/19/2026 - 21:34
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1 week 1 day ago

An enjoyable book with some interesting action.  It is lacking in grand sci-fi concepts other than the sulfur stuff, which I thought for sure was going to be a cargo ship loaded with iron filings based on some commentary I had seen before reading.  But there is a good amount of near-future envisionings: drone concepts, live streaming, climate impacts, etc.

The climate topics overall are a no for me.  I don't identify with the people who dread climate impacts all day long in real life.  So even though I think it is plausible for such things to happen, I guess I really do not care to read a book about it.  I think I envision all these "dreaders" also reading the book and being like, "yes, see that is what will happen!" and want to roll my eyes so hard.

I wonder what topics I enjoy reading that would cause such eye rolling by others?

Lastly, I am really not sure what to think of the non-lethal border wars!  Is there some kernel of this developing already that I don't know about?

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