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Chasm City: Alastair Reynolds

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In particular, Reynolds doesn't expend much effort on 'side characters' - one minute they want to kill the protagonist, the next ( after a couple of overly-long and unrealistic dialogue exchanges ) new alliances are forged. As the ships’ societies gradually begin to drift apart and they develop into a sort of cold war, Sky realises that old ghost stories about a mysterious sixth ship trailing the fleet are actually true – a dark and silent vessel has been shadowing them for generations. El autor entremezcla 3 y 4 hilos argumentales todos ellos imprescindibles para la compresión final de la historia y en cada uno de ellos tu empatía hacía los personajes van variando del amor al odio con cada nueva acción que realizan. The story spans centuries, planets and multiple identities, deftly weaving a number of seeminging unrelated plot-lines. Taking 1000 or 5000 years, one can easily imagine a colony or even a solar system where they teach kids that their holy woman (who knows?

However, my initial assessment of the reality of the situation I thought I comprehended early on, was incomplete and less than half of the true picture. He begins as an ambitious but sympathetic young man, but through various events he starts to make decisions that take him to the dark side, as he morphs into a power-hungry individual who seeks to take over the starships and destroy his rivals.Tanner tracks his desired target to Chasm City where a plague occurred seven years prior to the opening of the book. Oh, the hybrids, often seen, but also used in a more positive way, but Reynolds goes full frontal pessimism and makes them sad, abused creatures, first created for human use, just as meat and organ donor animals, becoming an own, independent fraction fueled by hate and thoughts of revenge . Too many damned words that contributes little to the reader's understanding of the world, its history, etc. Definitely inventive and highly entertaining, this sci-fi thriller is a deep preview into the future of human race, with all tricks we can already predict now: perspective of limited immortality, scanning of personal experiences into computers, minuscule and gigantic machines permeating every sphere of live and bearing the seeds of mortal dangers, swapping of memories and erased personalities, brain implants, body sculpture etc feeding the hungry reader with nightmarish visions.

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.My favorite lifeforms are the hamadryads, snake-like creatures who grow to hundreds of meters in length. The darkest in the Revelation universe so far, even horrifying one, with a brilliant crescendo in events and terrifying characters. The second is centered several hundred years prior on a group of slow colony ships spending decades in deep space on their way to a new world, and one of their crewmembers, a young man named Sky Haussmann. A city that experienced a 200 year utopia known as the Belle Epoche where technology advanced to the stage where implants and nanotechnology made immortality viable.

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