366 7f3a718f-7263-4466-863c-57fe67d05c08 House of Suns Alastair Reynolds calibre (3.32.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2009-05-20T04:00:00+00:00 <div>An “engaging and awe-inspiring”(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. 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 there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now 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... **<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3> 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) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. <h3>Review</h3> Praise for *House of Suns “There’s enough here that is big, brash and bold to keep any space opera fan well satisfied.”—SF Site “Original and clever.”—COSMOS “A sweeping, audacious slice of galactic-scale intrigue and subterfuge.”—Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine “A hugely entertaining extrapolation of contemporary mores: a far-flung comedy of manners, with fascinating precedents. This is warmhearted science fiction with big ideas that are easy to follow. House of Suns might well be the author’s most human novel to date.”—Interzone “Reynolds’s brand of space opera continues to be engaging and awe-inspiring...big-scale ideas; packed with sense of wonder; great world building; backed up by believable science.”—SF Signal “A wonderful romp through a fascinating future...The story is unrelentingly entertaining and will stretch your imagination to its limits. If you enjoy recent Vernor Vinge or Peter Hamilton or Iain Banks, this is just what you're looking for.”—Critical Mass “Reynolds’s approach seems new, exciting, vibrant.”—SFX “As well as visionary brilliance, Reynolds also supplies a knock-your-socks-off ending.”—The Times* (London) </div> Ace 9781101061275 B002AKPECW _U2KuSNc50IC eng Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Romance Action & Adventure