Reynolds, Alastair -- House of Suns
Far-future space opera. The Gentian clone-clan circles the galaxy,
picking up stories and playing with their seriously incalculably
powerful tech-toys, with occasional (every 200,000 years?) reunions to
catch up. Then someone booby-traps one of their reunions. The few
survivors get to try to figure out why. The setting is fantastic but
the plot is kind of thin. I mean, there's plenty of plot and plotting
and secret conspiracies and mysteries and all that. With a gosh-wow
ending. But the mysteries aren't particularly deep, and while all of
the plot elements have their place in the plot, they don't fit
together in the plot. Everything is important once. Nothing is
revelatory. Too bad.
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