Chasm City
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds, published by Orbit on August 4, 2020, is a science fiction novel that delves into a dystopian landscape. This edition spans 528 pages and is presented in English. The story follows Tanner Mirabel, a security operative navigating the twisted, disease-corrupted environment of Chasm City, a once-utopian settlement now ravaged by the Melding Plague, a virus that affects both organic and computerized entities.
Readers will find a narrative steeped in themes of revenge and survival as Mirabel searches for a postmortal killer amidst the chaos. The novel explores the implications of a city transformed into a nightmarish realm, where the remnants of humanity and technology intertwine in a struggle for existence. With elements of space exploration and hard science fiction, Chasm City offers an intricate look at a world shaped by corruption and historical atrocities, inviting readers to engage with its complex and unsettling atmosphere.
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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.
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