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Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
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Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City, Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell.

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.

©2008 Alastair Reynolds (P)2009 Tantor
Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense
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"Consistently startling.... Reynolds remains one of the hottest...SF writers around." ( Publishers Weekly)
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amazing with the appropriate dash of mind f*ck. I really enjoyed the First book and now the second didnt dissapoint.

mindbogeling

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Chasm City hat mich wirklich gefesselt.
Es gab einige unerwartete Wendungen.
Auch der Sprecher war exzellent.

Sehr spannend!

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It takes some time to get emotionally invested with the characters (notaby the protagonist), but what a rewarding pay-off indeed. Hard sci-fi, witty humor, mind-bending twists and turns, truly sastisfying finale. Very well performed by the narrator. Fully recommended.

Recommended

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The clues are all around you in plain sight but it took me very long to see what was actually happening.
Very interesting and layered.
I liked the idea of the melding plague and its origin.
The old question "who am I" from a different perspective.

A mystery and crime story in Sci-fi

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