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January 11, 2023 admin admin Fiction

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“Century Rain ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: a mid-20th-century version of Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it’s too late — for the past and the future of two worlds.

Brief Summary Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

The book starts with two seemingly unconnected story lines, a future archaeologist recovering items from a post apocalyptic Paris and a private investigator in a fascist mid-twentieth century Paris. So… there is some sort of murky connection, but it is more fun to discover it yourself than letting the back cover or a review spoil it for you. The physics obviously can’t be very convincing, but I don’t consider this book a serious try at hard science fiction. Reynolds is playing with settings, stereotypes, cliches, and whole genres. Blending them together and tearing them apart again. The first works better than the latter and especially the last third of the book has some lengths that could have been avoided. Most scenes work best if you just try to get a feel for it rather than looking at all the details. The clues of the crime story are laid out rather clumsily, but the characters move around very believable. The Casablanca references work very well in a rain soaked fascist Paris as does the “Third Man” underground espionage feeling.