House of Suns Audiobook
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Review #1
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Reynolds can weave together sci fi mechanisms like no other. In this story, he has a new approach to building civilisations across the galaxy and beyond. He also layered in some epic family rivalries, but not your typical families.
Review #3
Audiobook House of Suns by Cris Dukehart
Every Reynolds’ book surprises me in wonderful ways. I’m a huge fan of the Revelation Space universe, and I remember being hesitant to read his stand-alone stories; almost as if I’d find a reason not to like him anymore. But just like Century Rain and Pushing Ice, I was sucked into the amazing universe (literally) that he created in this novel. And the characters are so dynamic and loveable, that I was in genuine wonder as to how their fates would play out in the end.
This book has it all: action, adventure, romance, revenge; all wrapped into Reynolds’ brilliant ability to blend theoretical physics/hard sci-fi with entertainment. Also, like some of his other works, Reynolds has crafted a story that supercedes time and space taking the reader across the ages as the story unfolds. I’ll leave it at that so as not to spoil the excitement of reading the book yourself.
One thing of note, the first person narratives switch around as you move from chapter to chapter. You’ll figure out who’s who in the zoo pretty quick.
Review #4
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Alastair Reynolds made a name for himself writing dark, violent, hard-edged sci-fi set in a deeply-textured, gritty universe, centering on brutal choices made by deeply flawed people under harrowing circumstances. You might think a novel that revolves around guilt and vengeance, begins with a mass murder and then moves on to vastly greater atrocities would fit easily into his oeuvre … but it doesn’t. Despite wanton slaughter, intense space battles, multiple assassination attempts, several shootouts, more space battles, and even the threat of human extinction, HOUSE OF SUNS is an almost-light-hearted romantic heroic space opera murder mystery. Really.
Six million years ago, a young woman named Abigail Gentian used her family resources to grow 999 adult human bodies — roughly half of them male, none of them from her own DNA — and implanted them with all of her memories. She intended each of these “shatterlings” to travel the galaxy in perpetuity, acting as a communication system and collective memory for planet-based human colonies and empires that would otherwise fall gradually into isolation. Since each of the shatterlings is — or at least was — Abigail, they shared the same desire. She also decreed that her shatterlings would come together once every 200,000 years — roughly enough time to make a circuit of the galaxy at relativistic speeds — to share memories and renew their common identity.
It was at one of these gatherings that the murderers struck. Fortuitously, shatterlings Campion and Purslane were running late and missed the attack. Campion, a male shatterling, is a good-hearted nonconformist reminiscent of Reynolds’ Conjoiner Nevil Clavain. Purslane, a female shatterling, is, in violation of Gentian tradition, Campion’s lover and a bit of a bad grrrl. The couple readily take up the challenge of determining who has attacked the Gentian line and why.
As I suggested above, HOUSE OF SUNS is much broader in its strokes and pulpier in its approach than Reynolds readers are accustomed to. Still, readers who are drawn to Reynolds because of his intensity, his attention to detail, and his attraction to morally ambiguous figures and choices will find that these qualities are not absent, only muted. The result is a read that is considerably more entertaining and engaging than, say, PUSHING ICE, but not nearly as dark and deep as, say, CHASM CITY.
Although HOUSE OF SUNS is in some sense a sequel to the novella “Thousandth Night,” it is not necessary to read the novella to enjoy the novel … although those who did enjoy the novella will be pleased with the novel. N.B.: There are a number of small inconsistencies between the novel and the novella, the most glaring of which involves a character who died heroically in the novella and yet is still alive in the novel … until he again dies heroically, albeit in an entirely different context.
Review #5
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After 2 brilliant novels at the beginning of his career – Revelation Space and Chasm City, Mr. Reynolds’ novels became either incomplete or just showing flashes of brilliance combined with lots of forget it run of the mill action. The short stories and novellas showed an extraordinary brilliance though and I’ve wondered if he would ever write a novel commensurate with them
House of Suns is that novel – epic space opera on a large scale but with characters you can identify with, hard sf based on the current understanding of the limits of science and a touch of fantasy and romance to complete it.
Based on the Thousandth Night novella published in the 1M AD anthology, with the same universe and characters, though different action, the story takes place in a mostly human dominated Galaxy 6M years in the future, with everything allowed except causality busting – so no ftl – moving planets out of danger, Dyson spheres, cloning, intelligent robots, immortality, matter replicators, damming stars – anything conceivable today that stays within the limits of our physical understanding of the Universe is there.
Civilizations rise and fall, but towering over them are the Lines, groupings of originally 1000 immortal shatterlings though in time some are lost to attrition – all clones of a single person to start with – that have the most advanced ships, tech, and go on Circuits around the Galaxy, meeting once every 200k years to mix their memories. Of course travel being sub-light they spend most time in stasis or slow-time – they can and do slow time at will with “syncromesh”, so of those 6 Million years each shatterling lived several tens of thousands – bookworms tunneling through the pages of history as they are called by entities that actually lived through millions of years though at a slow pace
The shatterlings are almost as benevolent gods to the “turnover” civilizations of the Galaxy and they trade and do good works like preventing stars to go supernova, moving planets out of harm’s way…
The story focuses on 3 main characters – 2 shatterlings of the Gentian line Campion and Purslane – Campion is brash and just on the right side of censure for various actions or inactions – Purslane has the best ship of the Gentian line and is patient and determined, making a good match with her illicit lover Campion – the shatterlings are supposed to go alone on their circuits and not form bonds…
Also in small restropect chunks we get to see the original Gentian, Abigail, millions of years ago in The Golden Hour – that’s a literal name – when humanity lived in the Solar system only and the shatterling project originated and some of how the Lines formed.
Purslane and Campion meeting illicitly on their way to the next Gentian reunion and preparing to falsify their memories before dumping them in the common mix, stop by an obscure planet to fix a stardam put in place to prevent a supernova extinction of the local civilization.
Being late to the meeting, they detour to fix Campion’s ship, and in the process rescue a strange robot of the machine people – Hesperus – with missing memories. Finally on their way to the reunion, they get a very disturbing message and the adventure begins.
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