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House of Suns
Written by Alastair Reynolds
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Average Score:
77(11)
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. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels.
Only this millennium there is no gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And 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.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Hardcover,
480 Pages
Published
by Ace Hardcover on June 02, 2009
First Published by Gollancz in 2008
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Reviews
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The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation
| Jonathan Cowie
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Review Rating: 100
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House of Suns is a mind-stonking tour de force that is packed with sense of wonder, leaps of scale, and exotic concepts.
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sffworld.com
| Rob H. Bedford
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Review Rating: 100
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House of Suns is a staggering novel of wonder, big ideas, storytelling and awe
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SF Signal
| John DeNardo
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Review Rating: 90
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If you've never experienced Reynolds' tasty brand of space opera before, House of Suns is a great place to start.
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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight magazine
| Simon Petrie
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Review Rating: 80
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This is a sweeping, audacious slice of galactic-scale intrigue and subterfuge
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SF Site
| Paul Kincaid
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Review Rating: 80
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In other words, whenever Reynolds narrows the focus, he fumbles. But that's not why we read him. We read him for the wide-screen baroque he carries off with such élan, and in that House of Suns is no disappointment.
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SFRevu
| Ernest Lilley
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Review Rating: 80
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If you want terrific New Space Opera, you'll want to visit The House of Suns.
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SFX
| Alastair Reynolds
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Review Rating: 80
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...after years of reading about anti-heroes who would wear black leather in a vacuum were it a practical spacesuit material, Reynolds's approach seems new, exciting, vibrant.
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Stephen Hunts SF Crownest
| Tomas L. Martin
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Review Rating: 80
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When you give it your all, [The House of Suns] rewards you in kind. A solid, thoughtful read.
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SF Reader
| S. J. Higbee
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Review Rating: 60
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for me, the twisting plot and steady building of narrative tension needs the kind of brilliant climactic ending Reynolds gave us in Century Rain to bring House of Suns to a truly satisfying end.
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SF Site
| Rich Horton
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Review Rating: 60
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What I'm left with is an impression of a novel that I had a great deal of fun reading, that is packed with pretty cool ideas, and nice action and gadgetry, and a thought provoking conclusion. Which is all good -- but for all that I felt it fell just a bit short of brilliance.
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Strange Horizons
| Dan Hartland
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Review Rating: 40
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Unfortunately, Reynolds shows himself through the course of House of Suns to be a painter of panoramas par excellence, but at best a confused writer of people.
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