Saturday, March 29, 2008

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

A patron had turned in a paperback by this author at the library that I was working in and it looked like it might be something I might be interested in reading. It was! I enjoyed it so much that I got on the catalog and found this (and more) by this author. Reynolds' writing is fun to read and I found myself constantly going back to earlier sections where he had made some small reference to a subject that just happened to come up and be important later.
This book follows the adventures of Tanner Mirabel, a security operative, as he searches for a low-life, postmortal killer. The plot is quite complicated and weaves around and back and forth. The book is consistently startling and Reynolds uses plenty of cutting edge biology, alien intrigue, AI's and other sci-fi tricks. A mighty good read for any genre.