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House of Suns

by Alastair Reynolds

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Review:

"Reynolds (The Prefect) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella 'Thousandth Night' in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that saves them from a massacre. Allied with potentially hostile Machine People and an enigmatic post-human god called the Spirit, armed only with fragmentary records and hints that Campion's research provoked the mysterious House of Suns, the Gentian survivors struggle to find and stop their enemies before the genocide can be completed. Intriguing ideas and competent characterization make this a fine example of grand-scale relativistic space opera. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels.

Only this millennium there is no gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And Campion and Purslane-two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences- must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.

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Reynolds has once again created a galaxy-spanning, mind-boggling stage on which to set a gripping, thoughtful, intelligent drama.--"Concatenation."

Product Details

ISBN:
9780441017171
Author:
Reynolds, Alastair
Publisher:
Ace Books
Subject:
Science Fiction - Space Opera
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Life on other planets
Copyright:
Publication Date:
June 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
473
Dimensions:
8.92x6.60x1.56 in. 1.51 lbs.
Age Level:
18-17

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