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Another mind bending read by McAuley! This takes place about 1500 years after the Quiet War, and in a 'nearby' solar system-- Fomalhaut. The book rotates among three POVs, which can be confusing at first, but not nearly as confusing as trying to figure out the various parties involved. After the events in the Quiet War, humanity turned to the stars. Gardens of the Sun, the second volume in the series, ended with Sri Hong-Owen (reduced you might say into various cloned offspring) heading out to F...
Having been a bit disappointed by the third book in the series, Gardens of the Sun, this one was a nice surprise. The book is much more dynamic, and the story, being told from three equally interesting perspectives, is fluent and engaging, giving another chance for McAuley's imagination to shine. I especially enjoyed how the author adds the elements of cyber(punk) to the mix, which already includes the biology and ecology. A second improvement is the move outside the Solar system. McAuley's desc...
In the mouth of the Whale follows several offshoots of humanity competing for control of a gas giant. Within the planet is contained a strange and powerful Mind which could change both the future and the past of humanity. I won’t describe the plot any more than this because a lot of the fun of the book comes from getting to grips with the various plot lines.This is a challenging read. There is a lot of terminology and history to get your head around and it’s not immediately obvious how it all fi...
OK. Too many ideas in the plot
What it's about: A thousand years after the events of Gardens of the Sun, a war is taking place in the distant Formalhaut system, with the dictatorial and militaristic True Empire and their Quick slaves battling the descendants of the transhuman Ghosts. Amidst this, a ship bearing the consciousness of Sri Hong Owen approaches ever closer, bringing with it a promise of transformation.Notes: The Quiet War universe of books moves into the distant future with this third book, the worldbuilding of...
Two of the stories in Whale are set around a gas giant in another star system, a far-future sequel to the events in McAuley's Gardens of the Sun. The big event going on is an approaching war between the Ghosts (post-humans from earlier books) and the True (unmodified humans). Within that big event you have the story of a lowly Quick (post-human slave) and an exiled True monk on a virtual-reality detective hunt. The third story in Whale is sort of a prequel to Quiet War, a VR simulation of the ch...
