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Chasm City

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2001
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42 chapters
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 Revelation Space*
#0.5 of 4
Revelation Space*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of science fiction books by Alastair Reynolds that take place in the Revelation Space universe.

0.5) Chasm City
1) Revelation Space
2) Redemption Ark
3) Absolution Gap
4) Inhibitor Phase
Copyright © 2001 by Alastair Reynolds
No dedication.
Dear Newcomer, Welcome to the Epsilon Eridani system.
May contain spoilers
"Life's what you make it."
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Added: 10-Jan-2023
Last Updated: 10-Jan-2023

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 04-Aug-2020
Orbit US
Trade Paperback
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Date Issued:
04-Aug-2020
Format:
Trade Paperback
Cover Price:
$16.99
Pages*:
586
Internal ID:
12994
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-316-46247-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-316-46247-1
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Barbara Bella - Photographer
Lauren Panepinto - Cover Design
Shutterstock - Cover Images
Acclaimed 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 corrupted planet.

The once-utopian Chasm City 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 low-life killer.  But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face-to-face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

"Deep, complex, and always more than [it] seems.  Reynolds succeeds in the hardest task of good science fiction, creating a new world full of wonder."
- DENVER POST

"[A] worthy follow-up to... Revelation Space....  Reynolds transmutes space opera into a noirish, baroque, picaresque mystery tale....  Inventiveness and tone are Reynolds's strong points....  The novel's details are consistently startling but convincing in context....  Reynolds remains one of the hottest new SF writers around."
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

"Successfully combines SF noir with technothriller in a dark vision of the future." - LIBRARY JOURNAL

"[An] impressive book....  Another step toward what could become a very significant twenty-first-century hard SF career." - SF SITE
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Notes and Comments:
First Orbit Print Edition: August 2020
First Orbit eBook Edition: April 2020
Originally published in Great Britain by Gollancz in 2001

First printing based on the number line

Canada: $22.99

All Covers for this edition of the series

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Author(s)

Alastair Reynolds  
Birth: 13 Mar 1966 Barry, Wales, UK
Notes:
From "Meet the Author" in Elysium Fire:

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966.  He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews universities and has a PhD in astronomy.  He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer.  Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, and Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.

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