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Six million years in the future, the entire galaxy is a Used Future. House of Suns remains one of my favorite novels, and it was certainly one of the most enjoyable to write. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Space Opera Science Fiction (Foreign Language Books), Action & Adventure Fiction (Foreign Language Books). I’m 2/3 in and struggling to finish it. Unfortunately this book seems a little mediocre. Unable to get within weapons range, Campion pursues Purslane’s ship for sixty thousand light years, during which time he and Purslane, on their separate ships, are suspended in "abeyance", a form of temporal slowdown or stasis. He is now writing full-time. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 图书House of Suns 介绍、书评、论坛及推荐 Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. House Of Suns Jim Newstead Milton Keynes Hey! During the next few days, the interrogation of the prisoners commences. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. It's about the music. - "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds” ― Alastair Reynolds, quote from House of Suns “I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.” Along with the shattering process, Reynold's plays with plenty of other rich SF concepts, including various forms of machine intelligence; the ability to control subjective time; and some truly gruesome torture technology that allows a person to be divided into hundreds of slices whilst still alive. Facebook page House Of Suns. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I don’t remember any particular setbacks or impasses at any point in … Reynolds announced the title on 7 June 2007, when he was about halfway through writing it. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrew's Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. It is a pity that these aspects of the book fail to achieve the same heights as the universe in which it is set". Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Using information gained from the other two robots and his own memories, Hesperus (who is now an amalgamation of both Hesperus and the Spirit of the Air) has pieced together what is going on: Cadence and Cascade have discovered that the Line was involved in the accidental extermination of a forgotten earlier race of machine people, dubbed the "First Machines". THROTTLED 5. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[3]. See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Campion and Purslane-two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences-must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence. Unable to add item to List. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. Six million years in the future, the entire galaxy is a Used Future. The drones and UAVs have a CPU unit that is out of phase with reality and can move at super-luminal speeds so that the CPU can be at more than one place at a time. Please try again. WANE 2. Campion and Purslane are in a relationship, which is frowned upon, even punishable, by the Line. House of Suns may not be the greatest sci-fi book I've ever read, but it certainly wouldn't look stupid on a short-list of contenders. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 5曲入りEP『HOUSE OF SUNS』 昨年11月に〈Bala Club〉から2ndEP『Tame』をリリースしたReba FayのプロジェクトSwan Meat。先日はアジアツアーを敢行し、小岩BUSHBASH、幡ヶ谷Forestlimitなどで日本公演も行っ But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. On board Silver Wings of Morning, Hesperus reveals to Campion that while he managed to destroy Cadence before they could leave the Neume star system, Cascade survived and he and Cascade had engaged in a marathon battle, lasting the several thousand years the trip took. There are too many characters and none of them have enough depth. Despite efforts to stop the hijacked ship from reaching the concealed wormhole by local civilisations, the robot Cascade succeeds in opening the "stardam" enclosing the wormhole and travelling through it to the Andromeda Galaxy. (A number of characters killed in the novella make an appearance in the novel.) Reynolds announced the title on 7 June 2007, when he was about halfway through writing it. Amazon配送商品ならHouse of Sunsが通常配送無料。更にAmazonならポイント還元本が多数。Reynolds, Alastair作品ほか、お急ぎ便対象商品は当日お届けも可能。 House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, 9780575082373, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. House of Suns is pretty-much impossible to dislike, but not a novel easy to love with true passion. Approximately six million years in the future, humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy, which appears devoid of any other organic sentient life. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2015. Purslane accompanies them to her ship, where she must be physically present to give the ship order to transfer control over to the robots. This is a technique that has a number of problems. [5], At SF Signal, one reviewer noted that a "sense of wonder is where this book excels", adding that "Reynolds is playing on a galactic-sized canvas and uses believable science to back up his grand ideas...[t]his yields mind-boggling time scales, where millennia pass by like days". Campion is then shown the sarcophagus that contains the still-living Purslane, and the First Machine offers to help him free her before departing. Please try your request again later. It states that the First Machines have no hostile intent towards the humans, despite what was done to them. After being tricked by Ateshga, Campion and Purslane manage to turn the tables on him and leave his planet with a being he had been keeping captive, a golden robot called Hesperus. YOWL A civilization of sentient robots known as the Machine People coexists peacefully with humanity. So, you've got civilisations, little ones with a few thousand systems, then you have the Lines, with 6 million years of history, and star moving super science. House_of_Suns 8 points 9 points 10 points 1 day ago Craving the validation of a partner or the comforts of a home provided to you by an older, wealthier man is not unusual. House of Suns concerns the Gentian Line, also known as the House of Flowers, composed of Abigail Gentian and her 999 clones (or "shatterlings"), male and female: exactly which of the 1,000 shatterlings is the original Abigail Gentian is unknown. In scale this is a truly epic space opera, with a huge range of both time and setting. Your ability to separate them from a notion of romantic love and analyze your concerns demonstrates maturity. Each subsequent chapter is narrated from the first-person perspective of two shatterlings named Campion and Purslane, alternating between them each chapter. Despite Fescue's warning, Campion and Purslane approach the reunion system to look for survivors. Another Gentian, Cyphel, is mysteriously murdered, which fuels the Line’s concerns that there is a traitor amongst them. Cadence and Cascade hack into the ship's computer, taking it over, and take off from Neume with Hesperus and Purslane still aboard. They agree to take him aboard and return him to their people, who they promise may be able to help Hesperus. [4] Zack Handlen of The A.V. House of Suns may not be the greatest sci-fi book I've ever read, but it certainly wouldn't look stupid on a short-list of contenders. Technologies of the era include anti-gravity, inertial damping, force fields, stellar engineering, and stasis fields. Smash it all together with characters you can care about, and timescales enough to go places, and ultimately it's a love story, and a crime thriller, with barely a hint of travelogue. The novel may be filled with rich ideas, but neither of the two leads compels interest and the relationship between them is underdeveloped. Cloning, AI/machine intelligence, and galaxy-spanning action make this a space opera truly worthy of that title. Amazon.com で、House of Suns (GOLLANCZ S.F.) This is the story we follow in House of Suns. HOUSE OF SUNS by HOUSE OF SUNS, released 27 July 2019 1. The House of Suns is a massive corporation that employes drones and UAVs to destroy and opposing forces. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. As a way of punishing Campion for transgressions against the Line, Purslane is made to give up her ship, the Silver Wings of Morning (one of the fastest and most powerful in the Line) to Cadence and Cascade, ostensibly so they can return to the Machine People with news of the ambush, in a bid to gain the Line some assistance. You found me! House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. There was a vicious attack on the reunion world; an ambush in which the majority of the Gentian Line was wiped out. UNTENDER by HOUSE OF SUNS, released 25 September 2020 1. MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Super Audio CD - DSD, ヴァーナー・ヴィンジの『遠き神々の炎』やジョン・スコルジーの「老人と宇宙」シリーズの最後の方に出てくる、その進んだ技術力で神のような能力を持つ種族（人類ですが）の物語です。といっても、あまりにイメージが違うので後半に入るまで気が付きませんでしたが。, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2019. An immensely thrilling, mind-bending piece of work, House looks to the center of all that emptiness and finds its beating heart". Travelling It's not so much the plot of the book that drives it forward, although there is a reasonably interesting conspiracy angled 'whodunnit' at the core of it. The primary storyline begins as Campion and Purslane are roughly fifty years late to the 32nd Gentian reunion. "— The Times (UK) on House of Suns "Reynolds's approach seems new, exciting, vibrant. Consequently, the most powerful entities in the galaxy are the "Lines"—familial organisations made of cloned "shatterlings". A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he lives in the Netherlands, near Leiden. Tens of thousands of human civilizations have risen and fallen; the galaxy's been united under a single banner too many times to count. Then the super duper science of protagonists I shall not mention, and then above all the Priors with their galaxy spanning capabilities. Oh, and Lisa Tuttle, reviewing for The Times, called the novel a "thrilling, mind-boggling adventure" with "visionary brilliance" and a "knock-your-socks-off ending". STORY - House of Suns is a strange story, but I enjoyed it very much. Stick on some good head phones, turn down the lights and enjoy! 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