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House of Suns

by Alastair Reynolds

A thousand clones have watched empires rise and fall; now someone wants their entire line erased.

Genre and trope pairingsSci-FiBetrayalSci-FiClonesSci-FiRobotsSpace OperaBetrayalAdventureRace against time
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About House of Suns

Six million years after Abigail Gentian split herself into a thousand clones, the shatterlings gather periodically to exchange memories of fallen civilizations. Campion and Purslane arrive late with an amnesiac robot and discover the Gentian line under attack, with evidence that a traitor may be hiding among them.

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  • massacre
  • genocide
  • threat of extinction
  • torture
  • surgical violence

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