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Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City, Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell.
The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted---from the people to the very buildings they inhabit---only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.
Chasm City (Audible Audio Edition) Alastair Reynolds John Lee Tantor Audio Books
Chasm City - Novel, Science Fiction - [0736 - 2017-02-20]Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds is a science fiction novel and is also known as book 2 in the 5 book (so far) "Revelation Space" series published during 2000-2007. Curious readers may ask can this novel be read without reading the prior book "Revelation Space". In truth yes it can but your enjoyment and the comprehension of story events would be greatly enhanced if you had read "Revelation Space". Fortunately there is an authors introduction to this book that may or may not help new readers.
In this long novel, my paperback was 694 pages with a small font, one Tanner Mirabel - a solider-of-fortune - persists against overwhelming odds to hunts down an individual, Argent Reivich, that killed his friends. In my opinion the plot is almost immaterial to the author's elaborate descriptions of Chasm City, it residences and the circumstances of it's creation and de-evolution. Another sub-plot that I found most interesting is the story of Sky Haussmann founder of his Tanner Mirabel's home world, Sky's Edge. Tanner experiences Haussmann story through virus-induced flashbacks.
This is an elaborate and detailed science-fiction story that kept me up many evenings. Alastair Reynolds crams an encyclopedia of background in this novel that induced this reader to read book 3 "Redemption Ark". I am not exaggerating when I use the term encyclopedia. The Wikipedia has numerous pages on the characters, factors and locations of Revelation Space. Readers are strongly encouraged to check out the information - I was impressed, indeed.
Mr. Reynolds, with his Ph.D. in astronomy is a master at technological extrapolation. Therefore this story exhibits many "hard" aspects of hardware type science-fiction that will cause long time fans weep with joy and others to whimper with annoyance.
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Chasm City (Audible Audio Edition) Alastair Reynolds John Lee Tantor Audio Books Reviews
In "Revelation Space", Alastair Reynolds introduced a nanotechnology-dependent culture that had been damaged profoundly, if not beyond repair, by the Melding Plague, a disease that destroyed the implants and shortened the near-immortal lives of the citizens of Yellowstone. In "Chasm City", we get a first-hand view of Yellowstone just after the Plague hit through the eyes of Tanner Mirabel, a mercenary pursuing his last adversary from the frontier world of Sky's Edge.
When Tanner wakes up on Yellowstone, he's lost most of his memory, a result of years of refrigerated sleep in transit. But as he follows his target through chaotic post-Plague Yellowstone, being hunted himself in a local "game", he not only causes problems for the local power structure but becomes less and less sure he actually is who his records say he is. Not only, thanks to an implanted virus, is he experiencing memories as if he were Sky Haussman, original commander of the settlement on Sky's Edge, but he has memories that Tanner Mirabel can't actually have had. When it all comes together - or falls apart - it's in a climactic confrontation with the man he thinks he came to kill in the first place, and the man who might or might not be himself.
Displacement and isolation- both Tanner's and Sky Haussman's- is a theme Reynolds explored in "Revelation Space," but he adds to it here the question of identity- to what extent are we the people we present to others as opposed to what we actually think and do, and how capable are we of becoming someone else by an act of will? These are not new questions, especially with respect to the soldier looking to escape his past- there is a throwaway quip about "making furniture out of their bones" that will get a chuckle of recognition out of Iain M. Banks fans - but they're well-done and multi-layered here.
So why only four stars and not five? In large part because there's a lot, but not a lot new, happening here. Space opera; identity theft; lone gunman; manhunt as game; revenge mission; anti-technology virus. Perhaps it's the fact that all of these show up in one not-particularly-long book that gives 'Chasm City' the sense of being slightly wandering and unfocused. By the end of the book, we're not so much surprised as relieved that any given plot point has been resolved, and in the end that weakens what could have been a much stronger story.
A have been kind of a fan of Alastair Reynolds for the last two-three years. AR is a great writer always providing good and credible science fiction. Some memorable situations and always good stories.
But it is not perfect. Some books (as with any writer) are more polished than others and in some cases it is possible to see some evolution in his writing. Chasm City is an exciting adventure. But it is too long. It feels way before The Prefect in various aspects including the length. It felt like reading Lord of the Rings. Too much reading, too little happening. For (p)ages and (p)ages.
Characters are not the weak side of AR. They are always three-dimensional and interesting. However, here I felt that one main character was a kind of Sylvester Stallone/Arnold Schwarzenegger type, which means uni-dimensional, tough guy. And that type of character leads to plain dialog (approaching stupidity) and also to action-movie cliches (I've done terrible things; You don't want to know me; I could kill him if I wanted, etc. etc.). And that is the part that didn't really convince me.
For some people the type of story, tone and development could be really enjoyable since it feels as a Hollywood-style sci-fi movie. But that also means that the film script has contradictions and non-senses here and there. For me, a book, especially one authored by AR, is something where you expect way more thinking than in a Hollywood movie. However, the final turn and underlying story was exciting and creative. Nothing to complain about. The complain is about the 90% of the book with unnecessary nonsensical comings and goings badly justified and full of movie clichés.
Better than "Revelation space", not as good as "The Prefect".
Chasm City - Novel, Science Fiction - [0736 - 2017-02-20]
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds is a science fiction novel and is also known as book 2 in the 5 book (so far) "Revelation Space" series published during 2000-2007. Curious readers may ask can this novel be read without reading the prior book "Revelation Space". In truth yes it can but your enjoyment and the comprehension of story events would be greatly enhanced if you had read "Revelation Space". Fortunately there is an authors introduction to this book that may or may not help new readers.
In this long novel, my paperback was 694 pages with a small font, one Tanner Mirabel - a solider-of-fortune - persists against overwhelming odds to hunts down an individual, Argent Reivich, that killed his friends. In my opinion the plot is almost immaterial to the author's elaborate descriptions of Chasm City, it residences and the circumstances of it's creation and de-evolution. Another sub-plot that I found most interesting is the story of Sky Haussmann founder of his Tanner Mirabel's home world, Sky's Edge. Tanner experiences Haussmann story through virus-induced flashbacks.
This is an elaborate and detailed science-fiction story that kept me up many evenings. Alastair Reynolds crams an encyclopedia of background in this novel that induced this reader to read book 3 "Redemption Ark". I am not exaggerating when I use the term encyclopedia. The Wikipedia has numerous pages on the characters, factors and locations of Revelation Space. Readers are strongly encouraged to check out the information - I was impressed, indeed.
Mr. Reynolds, with his Ph.D. in astronomy is a master at technological extrapolation. Therefore this story exhibits many "hard" aspects of hardware type science-fiction that will cause long time fans weep with joy and others to whimper with annoyance.
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