House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds 2009 Hardcover - Chris Moore Cover

Condition: Acceptable  condition for a used book! Some wear. See images for the condition of this book. This title is a part of our Science Fiction Summer Reads List! Here's a link to snag a brand new paperback version through our affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org. Blurb: Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings.Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Campion and Purslane are not only late for their thirty-second reunion, but they have brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest.But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibi