House of Suns: Alastair Reynolds (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

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Also, at least in the case of the Gentian Line, the Line progenitor is one of the Line member, but deliberately got their identity wiped out. Mile-Long Ship: Common enough that every member of Gentian Line (and likely most, if not all shatterlings in general) seems to own at least one.

The main POV characters are Campion and Purslane Gentian, male and female clones of Abigail Gentian. Also, Abigail Gentian, at the end of the creation process of the Gentian Line, deliberately wiped her identity from herself when she chose to become the 1000th member of the Line, so that no one in the Gentian Line, not even herself, would realize who's the original. Its power makes you feel as if you are in that world, living the experiences of the characters and feeling their emotions. It is not quite "perfect": in terms of its own self-consistency, the scene-setting that leads up to the finale doesn't quite ring true, there's a bit of conveniency there. But hey, if the cyborgs look exactly like the parents, they could assist them and the important bonding and conditioning on certain faces is still there, so where could be a problem?Oh, if only you try the other series," "They get good after the fourth book in the series," "It's not until Book XX that it gets really good. Facets of Abigail Gentian, they are forbidden from consorting, but consort they most definitely have.

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. For some reason this book has been out of print in the US for a few years, making a physical copy a little tedious to come by, but I did eventually find one. Before preparing to depart Andromeda to follow its kin, the First Machine tells Campion that Purslane and Hesperus barely survived the passage into Andromeda. Campion, for example, is very much a seat-of-the-pants type person, much to Purslane’s good natured annoyance.At the same time, there's a parallel story that takes place millennia in the past involving a young girl, Abigail, her playmate and a immersion cube, and the medieval castle setting where the two play. Campion and Purslane themselves are also easily some of the most likeable characters I’ve come across in Reynolds’ body of work so far. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. It's not easy to find a good starting point with Reynolds, since his magnum opus, the Revelation Space series, is long and reportedly hit-and-miss in places. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.