Full of intrigue and plots and sub plots, every time I thought I knew what was coming next there was another twist. Alastair Reynolds kann fantastische Welten erschaffen - das gelingt ihm selbst in seinen mittelmäßigen Werken. House of Suns posits, in the beginning, technology beyond many of the most forward thinkers' wildest imaginations. It all starts with this one girl Abigail Gentian who grew up in a weird shape shifting house and later cloned herself a thousand (+/-1) times for space exploration purposes. 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.

I guess future aliens will have much fun playing around with the most important factor of human society just as nowadays secret reptilian overlords that are already there.Every quarter-million years they all come together to share their experiences and combine their knowledge. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When the shatterlings' reunion world is destroyed by the entities trying to wipe out the Gentian Line: the world is bombarded from orbit and it's atmosphere is boiled off from the sheer energies of the onslaught.

House of Suns is a novel by Welsh sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds, set in more or less the same universe as the novella Thousandth Night . I was born in a house with thousands of books, in a small, quiet village, on the edge of a former empire of conquering and commerce. I had already seen dozens of empires come and go, blossoming and fading like lilies on a pond, over and over, seasons without end. The Lines do not inhabit planets, but instead travel through space, holding reunions after they have performed a "circuit" of the galaxy; something that takes about 200,000 years. El libro me ha dejado un muy buen sabor de boca y tengo muchas ganas de conocer los otros trabajos del autor.

The entries for very advanced tech levels were rather obtuse and never really given much detail as to how the technology worked or what it enabled. The amorous involvement - a taboo, given their cloned origin - between the two central characters adds extra spice to the unfolding tale.