On the Steel Breeze

· Poseidon's Children Book 2 · Sold by Penguin
4.4
61 reviews
Ebook
496
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About this ebook

The award-winning author of the Revelation Space series continues his Poseidon's Children saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future...

Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice Akinyaand heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars.

The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial worlds—holoships—putting their faith in a physics they barely understand. Chiku’s ship is called Zanzibar—and over time, she will discover it contains an awesome secret—one which will lead her to question almost every certainty about her voyage, and its ultimate destiny...

Ratings and reviews

4.4
61 reviews
A Google user
June 9, 2014
Really enjoyed this sequel. It expands the universe slightly but mostly makes use of work from Blue Earth Remembered. Some follow-up on Mars and the Moon but mostly new locations. Plenty of setup for another book too.
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Hugh Messenger
September 1, 2015
I really enjoyed it, but may not appeal to Reynolds fans as much as his earlier works. More introspective, despite the typical large scale.
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Alex Franchilli
September 20, 2015
Picks up at the end.
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About the author

Alastair Reynolds is the author of the Poseidon’s Children series and the Revelation Space series. Born in Barry, South Wales, he studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time.

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