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Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.
Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defences: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire rest-mass of the galaxy." Now an intuition he doesn't understand makes him explore the dead world Resurgam, whose birdlike natives long ago tripped some booby-trap that made their own sun erupt in a deadly flare.
Meanwhile, the vast, decaying lightship Nostalgia for Infinity is coming for Sylveste, whose dead father (in AI simulation) could perhaps help the Captain, frozen near absolute zero yet still suffering monstrous transformation by nanotech plague. Most of Infinity's tiny crew have hidden agendas--Khouri the reluctant contract-assassin believes she must kill Sylveste to save humanity--and there are two bodiless stowaways, one no longer human and one never human. Shocking truths emerge from bluff, betrayal and ingenious lies.
The trail leads to a neutron star where an orbiting alien construct has defences to challenge the Infinity's planet-wrecking superweapons.
Product details
* Paperback: 560 pages
* Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (3 May 2001)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 1857987489
* ISBN-13: 978-1857987485
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Registered: March 2004
Location: North London
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Review Date: 5, 24, 2008
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Price you paid?: £7.99
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Epic in scale
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Great book with some fantastic ideas.
Its Hard Sci-fi so there is no FTL its all possible...eventually
If you are going to get into Hard Sci-Fi you should give this a try, if you like its part 1 of three 
If you want to read all his books in time line order...? you should start with Chasm City and The Prefect
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