Cyteen

The Betrayal

368 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 1989 by Warner Books.

ISBN:
978-0-445-20452-2
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A triumph of a book. Reflected in it's Hugo award and the fact that I have probably read this book 6 or 7 times in my life. Of course, the point of this re-read was to put it in context with the rest of the Company Wars output and it still seems like a triumph of a book, cast in that light.
This book is set after the Company Wars and explores the Union society that was kept largely as a faceless enemy in the Company Wars sequence. The Union is a designed society using designed humans (called azi) to bolster its population as it terraforms the world it started on (the titular Cyteen) and expands into space. This is very much a book told in the 'historical fiction' mould, in fact it always reminds me of Michener in his pomp (having that thought again has prompted me to put …