AVID SciFi

Hard SF thriller about the gradual assassination of a thousand reconnaissance clones spread across the galaxy. Pre-order – out June 2, 2009

What it’s about – from the cover
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.

What people are saying
The London Times - A thrilling, mind- boggling adventure.

BBC Focus – A crisper style that recalls hard SF from the ’60s and ’70s. This nod to the past seems fresh and new.

The author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Wales in 1966. He has a Ph.D. in astronomy. From 1991 until 2007, he lived in The Netherlands, where he was employed by The European Space Agency as an astrophysicist. He is now a full-time writer.

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