This time Alastair teams up with Stephen Baxter to write this interesting yarn, taking us from an alternative history of the Apollo missions all the way into the deep heart of Jupiter, hundreds of years later.
As usual with anything Alastair Reynolds, it’s just great all round writing. What i really liked about this one is the recreation of Jupiter with a whole eco system going on all the way down to the core of the planet.
Once again we’ve plenty of AI stuff going on, and going wrong on a cosmic scale (rapidly approaching an Earth near you, in case you’ve been sleeping under a rock and hadn’t noticed), and a solar-system wide war with a cyborg, running/wheeling/flying around, trying to make peace between everyone.
It’s a really good novel, and whether you believe me or not, i don’t care. If you don’t want to read it, just because i think it’s really good, then that’s your loss, not mine.
Next up from Alastair is Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee, which i’m diving straight into in my quest to read everything by Alastair before the AI’s take over and destroy everything of value that ever existed and turn the Earth into a volcanic wasteland (which won’t be long, according to some people).
Bye for now.
Available in Belladonna Nights and Other Stories.
At the end of a major war, the worse of the worse, from both sides (known as the Dregs by the crew), are put onto a sleeper ship and sent off to a far flung corner of the galaxy.
Available in Belladonna Nights and Other Stories.
Another AI story.
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Another super good read in this excellent trilogy, but Alastair left the ending wide open for a good follow-up story or three.
This is the second book in the Poseidon’s Children trilogy and a great follow on from