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

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It was important not to put them in when the paint was wet, though I’m not sure where they waited to dry. 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. I can't remember who to blame for The Infinite and the Divine, but I know I was talking to someone about it - speak up if you think it was you! Reynolds often has strong and important female characters, as he does here: of the two main characters (a couple), one is a woman. Reynolds's science is not only tremendously creative, it becomes wholly believable through his skilful writing, so that this extraordinary tale, told over a span of tens of thousands of years, following characters that have been alive for millions of years, becomes as natural as popping down the road for some fish `n' chips!

Every 6-7 chapters brings a flashback interjection that slowly reveals details and moves everything forward.Third pic - my sister's dog Hudson looks mournfully on the empty breakfast plate that wasn't for him. Die beiden Protagonisten Campion und Purslane muss man einfach gern haben, die Geschichte rund um die Shatterlings ist gut gemacht. The House of Suns erased all references to the event from history and maintain a conspiracy to keep it that way.

We had shared memories… I could taste and feel her other lovers… each experience reaching away like a reflection in a hall of mirrors, diminishing into a kind of carnal background radiation, a sea of sensuous experience. Bewildered by this sudden change of events, Purslane delays in acting, not sure if she should trust Hesperus, before deciding to ask the ship to detain and eject the robots in the bridge.Campion and Purslane are not only late for their thirty-second reunion, but they have brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. The Shatterling's House culture is barely explained, so that we may accept things that happen, such as it's unacceptable to arrive fifty years late to a Reunion, long-term coupling with other Shatterlings is unacceptable, as well as ( "Let's give this amazingly fast, advanced ship to our guests, the Machine People even though we're too poor to replace it" "Let's torture this fellow by sectioning them up into the tiniest pieces possible while keeping him conscious").