House of Suns: Alastair Reynolds (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

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I don’t remember any particular setbacks or impasses at any point in the process, which is an extremely unusual thing for me, especially where novels are concerned. It´s sick and disturbing, but if a perfect android could, in a few centuries or millennia, teach, rear, and educate babies and kids with perfection humans are incapable of (no 24/7, jobs, mood fluctuation, no technology to detect any emotion, bodily function of the kid, etc.

There's a major space action sequence, that finally adds a lot of tension, then many, many, more pages of dialogue about everything that just happened.El final es bueno aunque siento que es algo abrupto a mi gusto, aunque se compensa bastante bien con la resolución de la trama planteada y la mayoría de sus misterios, así como con la carga filosófica y los dilemas morales de sus últimos capítulos. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them, and why - before their ancient line is wiped out of existence, forever.

One of the constraints of the game was that any given planet could have a "technology level" that indicated how far technology had advanced on that planet, whether from native growth or from outside colonists. This is a minor (story-wise) mystery mentioned early on; naturally, it proves to be significant later. and then there just a few too many comparisons with things that are archaic even by todays wordage and would certainly be lost in a narrative in the first person set millions of years into the future. House of Suns is space opera on a grand scale: the Gentian line, "shatterlings" cloned from Abigail Gentian six million years ago, makes circuits of the entire galaxy in kilometers-long sub-light ships, collecting information, watching civilizations rise and fall, building Dyson sphere-like constructs to contain supernovas, making deals and occasionally feuding with other clone lines, and meeting up for a big family reunion every two hundred millennia.The Curators of the Vigilance are also this, but have lived through the intevening time by way of their particular brand of immortality, which makes them slower and more ponderous over time. Your brain is continually scanned while you are in it, so the world constantly adjusts and changes according to your wishes.

At SF Signal, one reviewer noted that a "sense of wonder is where this book excels", adding that "Reynolds is playing on a galactic-sized canvas and uses believable science to back up his grand ideas. It also scored a first - the emotional intensity of the finale was such that I was close to shedding a tear or two! At the risk of sounding too harsh, "statements of fact" sums up everything I dislike about this book. Die Welt ist typisch Reynolds: epische Science Fiction, in Zeit und Raum gigantisch, aber trotzdem stimmig. The primary storyline begins as Campion and Purslane are roughly fifty years late to the 32nd Gentian reunion.Using information gained from the other two robots and his own memories, Hesperus (who is now an amalgamation of both Hesperus and the Spirit of the Air) has pieced together what is going on: Cadence and Cascade have discovered that the Line was involved in the accidental extermination of a forgotten earlier race of machine people, dubbed the "First Machines". They're made of a material that's nigh-indestructible (though prone to shattering if propelled at high speed) and incredibly reflective, but have to be transported across space in one piece since the means of creating them are wholly beyond human science.

Third pic - my sister's dog Hudson looks mournfully on the empty breakfast plate that wasn't for him. Since the various descendants of humanity have been cavorting around the galaxy for the past six million years, there are plenty of planets that once played host to technological civilizations only to leave nothing behind but ruins. 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.I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. Arose billions of years ago, scattered impossibly advanced technology across the galaxy, and then vanished: a perfectly textbook example. I don’t want a sci-fi adventure pumped full of passion and fluff, but I’d like the women and their relationships to be more plausible, and to be portrayed with a little more feeling. Ancient Conspiracy: The House of Suns is one, being formed by the Line members responsible for the creation of the virus that wiped out the First Machines.