Pushing Ice

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Big Dumb Object: Janus, the Spica Structure and the unknown megastructure. Each following is much bigger than the previous one. I don’t want to spoil the plot for anyone by saying more. But this book BLEW ME AWAY! It reminded me a lot of Children of Time which was my absolute favourite book of 2017!

Not to mention there are plot holes wide enough that a california condor could stretch its wings out fully in, and still have room to glide around for a bit (why would future humanity send out probes looking for the main character, but not, you know, put "For Bella Lind!" (her name), or her face, or DNA, or some kind of identifier for her ALL OVER IT! No, instead they put the Vitruvian Man, which I think translates as "for/of all humanity" on it. Which thus resulted in it being forgotten/hidden for +20 years, which of course is just what Reynolds needed for a plot twist...).

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along: it's a highly dangerous mission, and their corporate bosses do not inspire confidence. One of Bella's key links to

Cut nothing and add more like painting the picture better...filling out secondary characters...don't copy paste characters and just change few things. Pushing Ice' will be one of the most unusual generation sagas most readers have ever encountered. Hint: Einstein's Theory of Relativity is involved... The Fountainheads warn Bella that the Musk Dogs can't be trusted and that some technologies are far too dangerous for a species ill-equipped to handle them, though the Fountainheads do not know the Musk Dogs true intentions. Svetlana (in defiance of Bella's advice) trades with the Musk Dogs for a passkey in return for access to Janus. The attempted construction of the passkey leads to an outbreak of replicating femtotech causing many deaths, at the same time it is revealed that the Musk Dogs are not tapping energy from Janus but priming the moon to explode so as to blow a hole in the wall of the Structure. On the downside, the story has abrupt shifts in time, which are confusing, and a murky finale that doesn't quite satisfy. Still it's a good tale, recommended to fans of hard science fiction.Alastair Reynolds's novels are reliably fascinating at the "big idea" level. He's got a truly first rate hard-SF imagination, and Although it’s pretty static in action, its scope is as colossal as we got used to. And we get some really interesting alien species as well.