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Séries:Marrow (2), Mere (aftermath of the events of the novel version of "Marrow"), Pamir (out of hiding, 2), Quee Lee and Perri (aftermath of the events of the novel version of "Marrow"), The Great Ship (novel - 9, change of mission, 2)
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Le Grand Vaisseau, aussi vaste que Jupiter, a longtemps voyagé autour de notre galaxie, abritant dans ses flancs immenses des milliards d'êtres vivants qui cohabitaient harmonieusement sous la férule de milliers de capitaines quasi immortels. Mais cette époque est désormais révolue. Après avoir survécu in extremis à la révolte d'une partie de ses passagers, l'immense carcasse a changé de direction et cherche à panser ses plaies. Elle fonce désormais vers une gigantesque région de l'espace où les étoiles sont si rares que le ciel est aussi sombre que de l'encre. C'est un voyage sans retour. Pendant que les capitaines s'efforcent de réparer la coque, le navire s'enfonce peu à peu dans la noirceur. Là, dans ce vide étrange, se cache la plus grande menace que le Vaisseau ait jamais affrontée. Car la vie peut prendre des formes inattendues, et l'entité mystérieuse qui veille au fond du puits a appris à être patiente.</p>… (plus d'informations)
I enjoyed the prequel to this book, 'Marrow', but found it lacking in some respects. This is a different experience altogether, but it does help to have read the first book just to start getting your head around the setting.
The Great Ship is the size of a Jovian planet. Humans were the first to discover it, empty and drifting, and they took it over. Centuries later, the Ship has become the ultimate cruise liner, voyaging the galaxy to allow different races to come together, explore and journey or just plain hang out together. As there is no faster-than-light travel in Reed's universe, the biological forms overcome this by having greatly extended lifespans as well as advanced medical techniques to overcome many of the more inconvenient kinds of death.
The first novel, 'Marrow', had a lot of scene-setting and a plot about the very centre of the Great Ship, an ordinary planet-sized core called Marrow. The trouble was that, having given his characters extended lifespans, Reed had to do something with them, and it made for quite a static story. Civilizations rose and fell in the course of a few pages. Not so in this book; suddenly the plot is far more mobile, there are new characters and many more of them; and there is wide-screen action on a scale that I found staggering.
This is certainly a book of contrasting scales; one minute you are contemplating parts of the Ship and boggling at its size; the next, the focus has pulled out and you are watching a major space battle as the movements of pinpricks of light. There are more incidental characters, and they are actually interesting people, if still a little fleeting in their passage through the pages; and the level of invention is up there with the rest and the best of Reed's earlier work.
This isn't the end of the story; another book is signposted at the close of this one. But with this size of canvas, there's enough scope for as many books as Reed can produce. And if they're all like this, then I'll have no problem with that. ( )
From Publishers Weekly As it sails the galaxy, the Great Ship (introduced in 2000's Marrow) meets an opponent worthy of its Jupiter-like size in Reed's taut sequel. Pitted against an entity that has sculpted its own dark cloud nebula called the Inkwell, the Ship's human captains and their nonhuman allies engage in a duel of wits and strength that drains gas giants and turns black holes into weapons. Washen, second in command but first in authority, must prepare the Great Ship for the encounter with the Inkwell. Washen's lover, Pamir, sets off in a streakship to confront the nebula's dominant species, the polyponds. Unraveling the dark nebula's secrets requires Washen to uncover some of the Great Ship's mysteries as well. The infinite depths of space are well matched by the all-too-human depths of Reed's characters, who range from near-deity to damaged fosterling, but must all face the problem of resolving conflicts between individual desires and communal needs. Having body-rebuilding immortality genes only gives them that much more time to debate the issue (as well as catching the unwary reader with quick-cut jumps of decades in a sentence). This literary SF novel works at all levels, from the big action sequences and mind-expanding concepts to the quiet, reflective moments. Agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House. (Apr. 12) ( )
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To my wife, Leslie Renee
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I have no voice that explains where I began, no mouth to tell why I was imagined or how I was assembled, and I no idea who deserves thanks for my simple existence, assuming that thanks are appropriate.
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It was the full-throated, wonderstruck shriek of a girl who until now, until this moment, had forgotten just how much fun it was to fall.
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Le Grand Vaisseau, aussi vaste que Jupiter, a longtemps voyagé autour de notre galaxie, abritant dans ses flancs immenses des milliards d'êtres vivants qui cohabitaient harmonieusement sous la férule de milliers de capitaines quasi immortels. Mais cette époque est désormais révolue. Après avoir survécu in extremis à la révolte d'une partie de ses passagers, l'immense carcasse a changé de direction et cherche à panser ses plaies. Elle fonce désormais vers une gigantesque région de l'espace où les étoiles sont si rares que le ciel est aussi sombre que de l'encre. C'est un voyage sans retour. Pendant que les capitaines s'efforcent de réparer la coque, le navire s'enfonce peu à peu dans la noirceur. Là, dans ce vide étrange, se cache la plus grande menace que le Vaisseau ait jamais affrontée. Car la vie peut prendre des formes inattendues, et l'entité mystérieuse qui veille au fond du puits a appris à être patiente.</p>
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The Great Ship is the size of a Jovian planet. Humans were the first to discover it, empty and drifting, and they took it over. Centuries later, the Ship has become the ultimate cruise liner, voyaging the galaxy to allow different races to come together, explore and journey or just plain hang out together. As there is no faster-than-light travel in Reed's universe, the biological forms overcome this by having greatly extended lifespans as well as advanced medical techniques to overcome many of the more inconvenient kinds of death.
The first novel, 'Marrow', had a lot of scene-setting and a plot about the very centre of the Great Ship, an ordinary planet-sized core called Marrow. The trouble was that, having given his characters extended lifespans, Reed had to do something with them, and it made for quite a static story. Civilizations rose and fell in the course of a few pages. Not so in this book; suddenly the plot is far more mobile, there are new characters and many more of them; and there is wide-screen action on a scale that I found staggering.
This is certainly a book of contrasting scales; one minute you are contemplating parts of the Ship and boggling at its size; the next, the focus has pulled out and you are watching a major space battle as the movements of pinpricks of light. There are more incidental characters, and they are actually interesting people, if still a little fleeting in their passage through the pages; and the level of invention is up there with the rest and the best of Reed's earlier work.
This isn't the end of the story; another book is signposted at the close of this one. But with this size of canvas, there's enough scope for as many books as Reed can produce. And if they're all like this, then I'll have no problem with that. ( )