House of Suns
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Tantor Media, Inc. 2009
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but they have also brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. 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.
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
09/14/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781400129621
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Alastair Reynolds. (2009). House of Suns. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds. 2009. House of Suns. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns. Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds. House of Suns. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
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) 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.
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