• fartographer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      That’s literally the plot of The Shining. It’s in Stanley Kubrick’s hidden messages from the fake moon that he invented or something.

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      3 days ago

      I have a book sort of like this. SevenEves by Niel Stephenson.

      The book blows up (or gets hit or something). The dist will make earth uninhabitable within a few years. I want to say Seven Years. I remeber the SevenEves title has many possible “meanings” and I think years to collapse was one.

      They basically work to get as many people as they can, which isn’t many, into space working with the small crew of a (larger than ISS but not huge) space station. Including all of the logistics of food and housing.

      They also have to manage it in a way as not to cause a panic because billions of people, will die. Because they literally cannot send everyone.

      The first two thirds are pretty good, the lattwr third jump to the future and fallout and I hated that part, but the first part is good.

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        2 days ago

        Like most of Neals books I found this book long and meandering, so I dropped it after a while, just wish he could better edit and pace his books. I enjoyed snow crash but every book of his I’ve tried since I could not finish.

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      3 days ago

      I.S.S. is based on that, there was a Cloverfield spin off that was pretty similar, too. I’m sure there are a bunch more, and I’d be interested to see them, too.