I just finished reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson while I was sick and confined to either bed or couch the last five or so days.

It’s a combination of disaster-survival novel in the first third, with the last third being science fiction novel set five thousand years in the future.

It features things I would have loved when I was in my late teens or early 20s, and still enjoy reading now: competent engineers making hard rational choices! Space hardware! The concept that we can engineer our...