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House of Suns

Auteur(s): Alastair Reynolds
Narrateur(s): John Lee
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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 30-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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The scope and rich language are of the few depictions that stand to the expectations of deep time sentience. The narration was a little forced and I might have preferred it to be read in a more neutral tone. Remarkable nonetheless.

A grand vision

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This book was a truly exceptional piece of science fiction. I have read few books to its equal and I enjoyed the narration.

Amazing book

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Started this book and stopped due to slow pace. Came back a while later and couldn’t stop! What a grand adventure with mind boggling sci-fi!

First time Reynolds reader

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Great story, great characters, well written. Only once said “Believe me!” Lol. Excellent narration too.

Awesome

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I absolutely loved this book. The way Alastair Reynolds weaves words together is astronomical! The story he has crafted here will inspire scientists for generations to come.
John Lee has become one of my favourite narrators.

Enrichment of Mind and Imagination

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This is one of those heady, mind bending sci fi reads. It takes some time to get into and orient yourself to the universe, but once you do the story is absolutely fascinating. Get this book if you like extremely far future sci fi, long lived beings travelling through the galaxy, AI and machine intelligence, cloning, and more!

Mind Bending Sci fi

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In the future man has conquered space travel. That's the premise for a lot of sci-fi books. The nice thing about this one is the way they did it wasn't by traveling faster than light or some other sort of magic, they just suspend themselves and awaken themselves in the thousands or tens of thousands of years or however many millennia it takes to get where they're going.The society of humans that travel the galaxy is the result of a bunch of cloning, they call themselves lines, and they've been around for about 6 million years. In that time they have seen civilizations rise and fall, but as I said they were in some sort of suspended animation for most of it. They travel independently and they have their own ships and they help various groups. The line this books about creates Star dams. It would take me too long to explain.

In this future there are machine people.There are also other civilizations that have been around forever and do nothing but gather information.I don't want to go into the plot I would have to give away too many spoilers,But the plot twists are actually interesting. There's ones you see coming at actually sets you up for the ones you don't see coming

Very entertaining and doesn't go where you think i

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...the plot lacks any depth. It isn't helped at all by John Lee, I find his performance lacks any range and quite droning.

Though grand in scale...

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This book has some interesting ideas, with a mix of fantasy and science fiction. But it almost feels like a middle book in a trilogy, where all the character building happens in the first book and all the meaningful story events take place in the next book.
As always tho, John Lee's narration is not good.

forgettable cast, poor performance

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There just isn’t that much here. We’re supposed to buy into protagonists who have lived 6 millions years, albeit ‘only’ several tens of thousands of years subjectively.

And yet they show no depth of character or understanding that you wouldn’t attribute to the average punter at your local. Except with spaceships.

As I said. Not horrible. But not much more.

Not horrible

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