Chasm City: Alastair Reynolds

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Chasm City: Alastair Reynolds

Chasm City: Alastair Reynolds

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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Volyova and Khouri, to an extent. Khouri doesn't fit the stereotype fully, since she's an accomplished and more than capable former soldier. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003) - A pair of eponymous novellas unrelated to the main storyline, but set within the same universe. We all have triggers, certain topics in our beloved genres that instantly make us sit up and pay attention. Artificial intelligence is one such trigger for me; identity is another. (Both touch on philosophy of the mind, a field that fascinates me, and I suspect this is why they intrigue me.) There is scant AI in Chasm City, but there is plenty of reflection on identity and the ramifications of using technology to alter one’s identity. As every other review notes, this book is part of the Revelation Space universe but stands alone; one does not need to read any of the other novels to enjoy it. Interfaith Smoothie: Horris Quaiche from Absolution Gap and the religions founded by him after he goes mad from grief and the influence of the indoctrination virus.

I am very glad he wrote this one from first-person viewpoint. I also rather enjoy the info-dumps that Reynolds puts into a lot of his stories - a plot device not used by everyone and even reviled by some, but I think it's necessary with stories of this complexity. Besides, they always appear at just the right moments and helps to avoid the frustration of wondering what's really going on that some authors make you go through.Alien Sea: Planets which are inhabited by Pattern Jugglers usually have most of the surface covered by oceans. Their water contains numerous microscopic organisms that give the water an unusual color and density.

There is also another Shout-Out implicit in the title, to David Bowie's album Diamond Dogs (which was based loosely on George Orwell's 1984). BFG: The Breitenbach cannon, a portable particle beam weapon similar to a light machine gun. But since the series deliberately isn't built around gun fights and actiony scenes, it makes only brief appearances. Another great story by Alastair Reynolds. Listened to the audio format of this one; as always, narrator John Lee does a FANTASTIC job of telling the story, keeping the characters separate with his amazing variety of voices, and adding just the right touch of emotion and intonation at all the right times. And of course it's very pleasant to listen to, I still think it sounds just like Sean Connery reading the story. In short, I wish he was the narrator of a lot more audiobooks out there.The ending of Revelation Space does this in the case of the fate of three of the main characters. Though it's at least explained thouroughly. Used Future: So very used. Let's just say that during the era in which the main trilogy is set, most of the glory days of the human interstellar colonies are only a distant memory. What is this "cryogenics" you speak of? It's called "reefersleep", dammit! And flying cars are " volantors", get it? Psycho for Hire: Grelier in Absolution Gap and pretty much any less than sympathetic Ultranaut or bounty hunter in the series.

The first three short stories (G.W.o.M, Gl., A.S.i.E) introduce the Conjoiners and the Demarchists, two of the main human factions. Also introduced are the characters Clavain, Felka, Remontoire, and Galiana. Detonation Moon: In a battle against the Inhibitors in Absolution Gap the Conjoiners accidentally blow a hole in one of Ararat's moons by using one of the cache weapons. about Sky Haussmann, the real nature of the Yellowstone colony, the place of humans in the universe, and Look, I know that's kinda a toss out statement, but it's still true. I loved The Prefect because it went wild with tech and even wilder political imagination, glorifying the Glitter Band before it became the Rust Belt. And of course, it was a really awesome mystery that went all out to become a nightmare destroying so much of the beautifulMultinational Team: Virtually all of the human factions of the series' setting got their start this way, already in the era of Solar System colonisation, before manned interstellar colonisation was practically developed. By the time of interstellar colonisation, most of the established factions of the universe had no allegiance whatsoever to old Earth nations and governments and formed their own societies and polities in deep space and on new colonies. All these developments contributed to the Culture Chop Suey nature of many of the societies, and the high frequency of multi-ethnic names.



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