Chasm City
2001 • 694 pages
Ratings40
Average rating3.9
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Ratings40
Average rating3.9
Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet. 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. One of Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle's "Best SF Novels of the Year"
Series
4 primary books12 released booksRevelation Space is a 16-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Alastair Reynolds, Grzegorz Komerski, and 4 others.
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There is something very strange about reading this book a second time after having forgotten almost everything that happened in it, and having it slowly come back to you, at the same time it comes back to the protagonist.
3.5/5 stars
Took a long time to get interesting, like 2/3 of the book. Not that the first two thirds were boring, far from it, it just felt as if it was going nowhere, Tanner was just stumbling from one situation too. the next.
Could/Should have been shorter.
A Space Opera, Cyberpunk noir, First Contact Technothriller.
Alastair Reynolds is simply the most imaginative author I've ever read.
