4.3
Fantasy & SciFi
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 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but they have also 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 possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them and why-before their ancient line is wiped out of existence forever.
© 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781400179626
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Luisterboek: 14 september 2009
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4.3
Fantasy & SciFi
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 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but they have also 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 possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them and why-before their ancient line is wiped out of existence forever.
© 2009 Tantor Media, Inc. (Luisterboek): 9781400179626
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 14 september 2009
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Sam
11 mei 2022
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Coen
27 apr 2022
Starting very slowly, the story does build to an interesting and somewhat unexpected finale. I must say I liked the way the whole galactic society and civilization turnover idea was carried out. When your life is measured in millions of years civilisations come up, flourish, and then go extinct like seasons in a year. Not the best of Reynolds works, but certainly worth the read!
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