- Life on other planets, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, English literature
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires.
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Epic, grave, earnest and contemporary.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Alastair Reynolds, John Lee
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Orbit, Ace Books, Ace
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316462617
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British science fiction author I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my scie
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