House of Suns
By Alastair Reynolds
(Ace Hardcover, Hardcover, 9780441017171, 480pp.)
Publication Date: June 2, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Mass Market Paperback, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD
Categories: Science Fiction - Space Opera
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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.
"Entertaining...This is warm hearted science fiction with big ideas."
-Interzone
"A thrilling, mind- boggling adventure."
-The Times (UK)
"Reynolds''s approach seems new, exciting, vibrant."
-SFX
"A sweeping, audacious slice of galactic-scale intrigue and subterfuge."
-Andromeda Spaceways
"Reynolds has once again created a galaxy-spanning, mind-boggling stage on which to set a gripping, thoughtful, intelligent drama."
-Concatenation
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