Diamond dogs, turquoise days : tales from the revelation space universe
Inbundna böcker. Orion Publishing Group. 2003. 231 sidor.
In his best-selling novels Revelation Space, Chasm City and Redemption Ark, Reynolds portrays a dark, noirish universe of five centuries hence, where warring human factions are stalked by even more vicious extraterrestrial predators, where the wider fringes of human culture are at least as strange as the real aliens.
But it isn't all doom and gloom: there will always be those who are up for a challenge - people like Richard Swift, the listless adventurer of the novella Diamond Dogs. When an old friend offers Swift the chance to help him explore Blood Spire, an enigmatic structure surrounded by the bones of those who have already tried, Swift can't say no. But if he wishes to understand it, he must pay Blood Spire's toll, which is greater than Swift could ever have imagined, and more cruel than death.
And there will also be heroes: those prepared to stand up for an idea, heroes like Naqi, the young researcher in Turquoise Days. Seeking to forget her complicity in her sister's accidental death, Naqi has dedicated her life to the study of the alien Pattern Jugglers, the amorphous, aquatic organisms with the capacity to preserve and reshape human memory. When newcomers arrive around her world, she hopes that she will at last be able to escape her past - but the past has other ideas.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780575075269
- Titel
- Diamond dogs, turquoise days : tales from the revelation space universe
- Författare
- Alastair Reynolds
- Förlag
- Orion Publishing Group
- Utgivningsår
- 2003
- Omfång
- 231 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Mått
- 1 x 1 mm Ryggbredd 1 mm
- Vikt
- 392 g
- Språk
- English
