House of Suns

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Alastair Reynolds: House of Suns (2009, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

English language

Published July 6, 2009 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-575-09788-9
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3 stars (1 review)

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3 stars

"No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk."

This had all the makings of a great book for me, but it ended up feeling like the harder I tried putting the pieces together, the worse the book felt. Such a great story idea! Great writing! (Theoretically) interesting characters! But once you start putting any sort of thought into what was going on, the cracks start showing. Ultimately I rated this based on feel—I had a lot of fun reading it in the moment—but the ending turns the story into a big nothingburger of a letdown.

Because of the sheer scale of this book, it’s hard to summarize. A regular gathering (every 200,000 years) of the clones of Abigail, a brilliant scientist and founder of the Gentian Line, goes terribly wrong, and the investigation into why this all happened is the core plot of the book. We get to know …