Alastair Reynolds

Tanner Mirabel ventures through the dark underside of Chasm City, a once utopian city overrun by a vicious virus known as the Melding Plague, in pursuit of a lowlife postmortal and comes face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that everyone would do anything to keep hidden. Reprint.

Chasm City

Ipek

I would give it six stars if I could. Mind = blown

Shona Tiger

Engrossing, entertaining, and weird. Maybe just a little too weird for me. And a bit choppy. And possibly too long.

Edit: Revised up because very memorable!

Bunnhi

This book took me 2 years to read. Why? The same reason why I'm giving it 4 stars as oppose to 5. The author was overly descriptive. Don't get me wrong, it's a marvelous read, it's just too detailed for me. Personally, I didn't want a whole page description on eyeshade. But hey, if you're one to prefer the author paint every nook in cranny in your imagination then go ahead. It was my first sci-fi read and I loved the story, LOVED IT. Will I read another book in the series? Sure, but only with the help of an audiobook though.

Matt

Winner of The British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel of the YearOne of Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle's "Best SF Novels of the Year" Legendary space opera writer Alastair Reynolds returns to the world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning stand-alone novel about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet. The once-utopian Chasm City--a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet--has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted---from the people to the very buildings they inhabit--only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

Chasm City

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