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House of Suns par Alastair Reynolds
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House of Suns (édition 2010)

par Alastair Reynolds (Auteur)

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Titre:House of Suns
Auteurs:Alastair Reynolds (Auteur)
Info:Gollancz (2010), Edition: paperback / softback
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One word: genius.

This book is superb from beginning to end, and it also leaves it open for a good follow on at some time in the future if Alastair feels like continuing the series at some point. I certainly hope he does.

Not only does this book demonstrate Alastair’s knowledge as a physicist, but it also demonstrates his incredible imagination and writing skills.

If you want a taster of Alastair at his best and you don’t want to go through all of Revelation Space just yet, then i suggest reading the House of Suns trilogy, sci-fi fans won’t be disappointed. ( )
  5t4n5 | Aug 9, 2023 |
Awesome, epic sci-fi.

I loved almost all the characters. The three POV narration works in this case, and pointed out the differences and similarities of the 'shatterlings' in an interesting way, while outlining their interrelationships the whole time.

The backdrop is impossibly huge, and yet the pieces you see are delivered in bite sized chunks that make it feel you've got at least some kind of handle on things, without it all being a nondescript unchanging blob. Your head might spin, but your feet will stay on the deck plates :-)

If I was looking hard for things to complain about, I'd say there were a few too many loose ends, and an ending that seems both a bit pat at first glance, and a bit thin on a second look. Memories (or lack there of) are just a bit too prominent in too many places, and I'm sure I've missed a couple of threads on my way through, with all there is to keep track of.

Fortunately the book keeps you sucked in so deeply you'll never stop to nitpick until the day after you're done.

Read this one. ( )
  furicle | Aug 5, 2023 |
I don't read a lot of science fiction; sci-fi authors tend to take short-cuts. Free from the restrictions of depicting the world as we know, many liberties are taken with dialogue, plot structure, or giving the reader the sense that reality in the book could happen anywhere else than in the author's fevered imagination. Reynolds tries to keep _House of Suns_ grounded in recognizable human emotions and melodrama, and as a former astrophysicist, he doesn't resort to some of the easy tropes (and violations of established physical laws) that his peers use - for example, Reynolds strictly obeys the Einsteinian restriction on travelling faster than the speed of light - it literaly takes the characters eons to travel anywhere in this book. Of course, that doesn't matter, as all of the main characters, clones or shatterlings, are essentially
immortal. Very convenient. ( )
  jonbrammer | Jul 1, 2023 |
Wow, this book was really good. The concept of the shatterlings and they way they traveled through space and time was very gripping. Talk about your big ideas! I have read most of the Revelation Space series of Reynolds but this one is far better. ( )
  sgsmitty | Jun 14, 2023 |
Periódicamente, los shatterlings del clan Gentian han de reunirse en una ostentosa celebración para intercambiar sus recuerdos. Pero algo no va bien: dos de ellos van a llegar unas décadas tarde a la reunión. A su crimen se suma el hecho de que están enamorados. Lo único que se interpone entre ellos y una posible excomunión del clan es un robot llamado Hesperus, de la metacivilización de los mecánicos. Sin embargo, Hesperus tiene amnesia.
Mientras los amantes esperan el castigo que puedan sufrir a manos de sus hermanos clones, interceptan una inesperada y angustiada comunicación que les aconseja que eviten el lugar de reunión a toda costa. Tras seis millones de años de estabilidad, alguien ha decidido que ha llegado el momento de poner fin al clan Gentian.
  Natt90 | Mar 29, 2023 |
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I found House Of Suns incredibly clever and sweeping and thought-provoking, and it all pays off in the final chapter with a very cosmic moment where the story's sweep opens up to take in a much larger, and stranger cosmos than we've glimpsed so far. Once you get past the slow begining, it's an exhilerating read that keeps your brain buzzing the whole time.
ajouté par PhoenixTerran | modifierio9, Charlie Jane Anders (Apr 16, 2009)
 
SPOILERS!

It was apparent from early on that the title of this book was going to be a pun.

The Gentian Line builds stardams. Using ringworlds constructed by a lost civilisation known as the Priors they surround suns completely. Not even a supernova can get through. These suns, then, are housed.

The galaxy-spanning society where the novel is set contains many Lines known as Houses who employ stasis technology in their aeons long trips around the galaxy. The Lines’ members are called shatterlings, clones of their respective founders - but of both sexes - each with their founders’ memories. The Gentians’ founder, Abigail Gentian, had a strange, artificially extended childhood, brought up in near isolation on a small asteroid enclosing a tethered black hole, with only the game of psychological immersion known as Palatial for diversion.

The shatterlings Campion and Purslane - all the Gentians have names derived from plants - are aberrant in that they are lovers. They are late for their Line’s reunion, an important gathering where all the members’ memories of their latest “circuit” of the galaxy are collected and shared. Before they arrive they receive the news that most of the Gentian Line has been destroyed in an attack. The novel works through their attempts to find out why, the significance of the mysterious occlusion of the Andromeda galaxy, and of the hidden Line called the House of Suns.

The book is split into eight parts each of which begins with a section which follows Abigail’s childhood. Thereafter succeeding chapters are, in turn, narrated from the viewpoints of Campion and Purslane. At first it is difficult to make sense of this as Reynolds does not differentiate their voices clearly enough. The other “characters,” some of whom are machine intelligences, step forward Cadence and Cascade - a King Crimson allusion? - are also not well delineated, even the elephant-like Ugalit Panth.

What Reynolds does give you is plot, in abundance. 500 pages of closely packed print is pushing it a bit, though.
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