El libro me ha dejado un muy buen sabor de boca y tengo muchas ganas de conocer los otros trabajos del autor. It states that the First Machines have no hostile intent towards the humans, despite what was done to them. Along with cool depictions of transhumanism, Reynolds raises some interesting questions about consciousness and identity. Arose billions of years ago, scattered impossibly advanced technology across the galaxy, and then vanished: a perfectly textbook example.

From 1991 until 2007, he lived in The Netherlands, where he was employed by The European Space Agency as an astrophysicist. However, the possibilities are manifold, but there seems to be not much difference between being brought up by mad, flesh parents or wacky artificial teachers.Send in the Clones: The shatterlings in each Line are all clones of one person; however, they've all been slightly modified, and some are Opposite-Sex Clone, so there's some variation. House of Suns is both hard SF and epic space opera, combining two of my favorite kinds of sci-fi, but despite the vast distances and time periods spanned by the novel, it never quite lived up to its epic potential, in my opinion, and that's even when considering the ending. I’ve read and enjoyed quite a few of their Alastair Reynolds, but not this one, which they took to university, and which I’ve just borrowed. Also used for inertial dampening, as a ship's shields can be projected internally around its inhabitants, allowing extremely high-g maneuvers that would normally render everybody inside to jelly.

It all starts with this one girl Abigail Gentian who grew up in a weird shape shifting house and later cloned herself a thousand (+/-1) times for space exploration purposes. Ungovernable Galaxy: No interstellar society has persisted for more than a few hundred thousand years courtesy of there being no Faster-Than-Light Travel or Subspace Ansible technology; empires have formed then slowly started to unravel and break apart from internal or external pressures and have done so for the past six million years. Consequently, the most powerful entities in the galaxy are the "Lines"—familial organizations made of cloned "shatterlings".They still keep on going, pumping so much energy into the planet that it literally just expands from the heat and disintegrates in a slow-motion kaboom. Yes, some of this is done with the technology of stasis cabinets and "Synchromesh," a time-altering drug that allows the subject to speed up or slow down their mind and body to match another who is phased out of "real" time. He's presented as a much more "organic" being -- and there's a lot of enjoyment to be had from the way machine intelligences are presented in this book.

Your brain is continually scanned while you are in it, so the world constantly adjusts and changes according to your wishes. On the time scale of the galaxy, it's not all that unlikely that a sapient species could evolve, expand, and then go extinct in the space of a few million years, with huge gaps between such species. Never have heard those singing sands, seen this beautiful city… We might have travelled here eventually, I know, but it wouldn't be Neume the way it is now… Do you ever get tired of sunsets?

Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.