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Sto caricando le informazioni... House of Sunsdi Alastair Reynolds
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  5t4n5 | Aug 9, 2023 |   I loved almost all the characters. The three POV narration works in this case, and pointed out the differences and similarities of the 'shatterlings' in an interesting way, while outlining their interrelationships the whole time. The backdrop is impossibly huge, and yet the pieces you see are delivered in bite sized chunks that make it feel you've got at least some kind of handle on things, without it all being a nondescript unchanging blob. Your head might spin, but your feet will stay on the deck plates :-) If I was looking hard for things to complain about, I'd say there were a few too many loose ends, and an ending that seems both a bit pat at first glance, and a bit thin on a second look. Memories (or lack there of) are just a bit too prominent in too many places, and I'm sure I've missed a couple of threads on my way through, with all there is to keep track of. Fortunately the book keeps you sucked in so deeply you'll never stop to nitpick until the day after you're done. Read this one. (  ) furicle | Aug 5, 2023 | immortal. Very convenient. (  ) jonbrammer | Jul 1, 2023 | ) sgsmitty | Jun 14, 2023 | Mientras los amantes esperan el castigo que puedan sufrir a manos de sus hermanos clones, interceptan una inesperada y angustiada comunicación que les aconseja que eviten el lugar de reunión a toda costa. Tras seis millones de años de estabilidad, alguien ha decidido que ha llegado el momento de poner fin al clan Gentian. Natt90 | Mar 29, 2023 |
 I found House Of Suns incredibly clever and sweeping and thought-provoking, and it all pays off in the final chapter with a very cosmic moment where the story's sweep opens up to take in a much larger, and stranger cosmos than we've glimpsed so far. Once you get past the slow begining, it's an exhilerating read that keeps your brain buzzing the whole time. SPOILERS! It was apparent from early on that the title of this book was going to be a pun. The Gentian Line builds stardams. Using ringworlds constructed by a lost civilisation known as the Priors they surround suns completely. Not even a supernova can get through. These suns, then, are housed. The galaxy-spanning society where the novel is set contains many Lines known as Houses who employ stasis technology in their aeons long trips around the galaxy. The Lines’ members are called shatterlings, clones of their respective founders - but of both sexes - each with their founders’ memories. The Gentians’ founder, Abigail Gentian, had a strange, artificially extended childhood, brought up in near isolation on a small asteroid enclosing a tethered black hole, with only the game of psychological immersion known as Palatial for diversion. The shatterlings Campion and Purslane - all the Gentians have names derived from plants - are aberrant in that they are lovers. They are late for their Line’s reunion, an important gathering where all the members’ memories of their latest “circuit” of the galaxy are collected and shared. Before they arrive they receive the news that most of the Gentian Line has been destroyed in an attack. The novel works through their attempts to find out why, the significance of the mysterious occlusion of the Andromeda galaxy, and of the hidden Line called the House of Suns. The book is split into eight parts each of which begins with a section which follows Abigail’s childhood. Thereafter succeeding chapters are, in turn, narrated from the viewpoints of Campion and Purslane. At first it is difficult to make sense of this as Reynolds does not differentiate their voices clearly enough. The other “characters,” some of whom are machine intelligences, step forward Cadence and Cascade - a King Crimson allusion? - are also not well delineated, even the elephant-like Ugalit Panth. What Reynolds does give you is plot, in abundance. 500 pages of closely packed print is pushing it a bit, though. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book is superb from beginning to end, and it also leaves it open for a good follow on at some time in the future if Alastair feels like continuing the series at some point. I certainly hope he does.
Not only does this book demonstrate Alastair’s knowledge as a physicist, but it also demonstrates his incredible imagination and writing skills.
If you want a taster of Alastair at his best and you don’t want to go through all of Revelation Space just yet, then i suggest reading the House of Suns trilogy, sci-fi fans won’t be disappointed. (