Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidons Children, #1)

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BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across than ten thousand years of future historyout beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin But Geoffrey s family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey s grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked well, blackmailed, really to go up there and make sure the family s name stays suitably unblemished But little does Geoffrey realise or anyone else in the family, for that matter what he s about to unravel.Eunice s ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything.Or shatter this near utopia into shards Download Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidons Children, #1) – kino-fada.fr Much fuss in the SF publishing world has been made about the fact that in 2009 Alastair was given a large sum of money, allegedly 1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years Though the steam punky Terminal World was published in 2010, it seems that much of this advance was connected to this series, a hard SF tale of the emergence of Africa in the 22nd century as a superpower group of nations and Earth s transcendence to the stars.My initial thou Much fuss in the SF publishing world has been made about the fact that in 2009 Alastair was given a large sum of money, allegedly 1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years Though the steam punky Terminal World was published in 2010, it seems that much of this advance was connected to this series, a hard SF tale of the emergence of Africa in the 22nd century as a superpower group of nations and Earth s transcendence to the stars.My initial thoughts that such a scenario would lead to Alastair writing near future travelogue SF, in the manner of Ian McDonald or Paolo Bacigalupi, were a little worrying I really wasn t sure whether the ...This book is Reynolds take on The Lion King. Or so was my initial impression after listening to the Audible sample where the narration is accompanied by sweet African background music that had me humming some rendition ofIn the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight No no no no noooo What is happening This is not gothic space opera This doesn t even have John Lee as narrator What is the universe coming to Suffice to say, I did not spend a credit on the audio version It st This book is Reynolds take on The Lion King. Or so was my initial impression after listening to the Audible sample where the narration is accompanied by sweet African background music that had me humming some rendition ofIn the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight No no no no noooo What is happening This is not gothic space opera This doesn t even have John Lee as narrator What is the universe coming to Suffice to say, I did not spend a credit on the audio version It still took all my meager powers of concentration to scan and quarantine theA weema weh, a weema weh, a weema weh, a weema wehvirus that had infected my neural implants I may still need to visit a neuropractor for a complete clean and reboot.Fortunately, this is not Alastair Reynold s version of The Lion King Lions do not play a major role in this book But we do start off in Africa, which 150 years from now is the major super power and technological world leader of the day Hey, ...Excellent novel that left me tearful, but perhaps not for the traditional reasons There are certain sci fi ideas that always kick my ass, and one of them are stories about how the stars open up I certainly got very emotional by the end of this novel, and that might have been a littlesurprising, had someone asked me how the novel was shaping up by the half way mark It had become a scavenger hunt with interesting elements, and that s fine and fun, but I hadn t expected the huge consequenc Excellent novel that left me tearful, but perhaps not for the traditional reasons There are certain sci fi ideas that always...5 starsI have been a huge fan of Alastair Reynolds for a long time thanks to his incredible Revelation Space series Blue Remembered Earth is a very different type of novel from the series mentioned This is a science fiction light novel told only the way that Alastair Reynolds can do it This is an accessible starting point to those new to the masterful author Blue Remembered Earth is tailored for a much larger audience as the science fiction is merely another character in the story, and not t 5 starsI have been a huge fan of Alastair Reynolds for a long time thanks to his incredible Revelation Space series Blue Remembered Earth is a very differ...Imaginative at times, but mostly plays out like a game of cat and mouse that eventually has no bearing whatsoever on the overarching plot of the story.There are many cool ideas buried in here A planet found bearing signs of artificial life, for example , but 98% of the story revolves around the politics of a few family members I didn t exactly find this riveting, or even particularly entertaining.I don t want to give too much away, but I will say that Alastair Reynolds has managed to produce Imaginative at times, but mostly plays out like a game of cat and mouse that eventually has no bearing whatsoever on the overarching plot of the story.There are many cool ideas buried in here A planet found bearing signs of artificial life, for example , but 98% of the story revolves around the politics of a few family members I didn t exactly find this riveting, or even particularly entertaining.I don t want to give too much away, but I will say that Alastair Reynolds has managed to produce a novel with an extremely claustrophobic feel to it Most of his novels take place over the span of hundreds Or thousands of years and across many light years of space In Blue Remembered Earth, just traveling to Mars is portrayed as an act requiring a great deal of time No Lighthuggers in this and money.I can t help but wonder if claustro...I have mixed feelings about this one Used to the immense depicted universe in Revelation Space series, this one felt too real and airtight And the focus is changed from technological wonders, enhanced humans and a vastness almost incomprehensible to a mystery story, action driven and family dispute It has its wonders it wouldn t be AR s work otherwise but they re nowhere near the ones from the other novels.The writing is as beautiful as in all the others I have read so far but, given the sm I have mixed feelings about this one Used to the immense depicted universe in Revelation Space series, this one felt too real and airtight And the focus is changed from technological wonders, en...Although this took a while to get going for me, Blue Remembered Earth was a very good book with some hard science I didn t quite get all the physics, but it was still an interesting and enjoyable read.Reviewed for Bitten by Books.Fantastically fun space opera with aliens and a mystery to solve.Actual rating 2.5 stars.A potboiler with a humanity spreads its wings theme, filled with hard sic fi babble about nanotech and human machine interfacing The future societies and governments Reynolds describes are quite creepy, built around pervasive electronic surveillance of the population backed up by psycho mechanical limits on individual human behavior solar system wide communitarianism gone mad There is one small surveillance free zone on the dark side of the Moon, and, frankly, I found Actual rating 2.5 stars.A potboiler with a huma...Blue Remembered Earth is the first of a new series, Poseidon s Children, by Alastair Reynolds Unlike his previous work in the Revelation Space series, this book is set in the Solar System The main events of the book happen in the mid 22nd century as imagined by Mr Reynolds The book is also a departure in style from his previous work It is lighter andoptimistic than any of the books in the Revelation Space series The work ischaracter driven and has fewer information dense har Blue Remembered Earth is the first of a new series, Poseidon s Children, by Alastair Reynolds Unlike his previous work in the ...

Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidons Children, #1)
  • English
  • 25 December 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 512 pages
  • 0575088273
  • Alastair Reynolds
  • Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidons Children, #1)