Chasm City - (The Inhibitor) by Reynolds (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. But Chasm City is not what it was. The one-time high-tech utopia has become a Gothic nightmare: a nanotechnological virus has corrupted the city's inhabitants as thoroughly as it has the buildings and machines. Before the chase is done, Tanner will have to confront truths which reach back centuries, towards deep space and an atrocity history barely remembers."--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet.</b><b><br></b>The once-utopian Chasm City -- a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet -- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit -- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.<b><br></b><b>One of <i>Locus</i> and <i>Science Fiction Chronicle</i>'s Best SF Novels of the Year</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A tightly written story that spirals inevitably inwards toward its powerful conclusion. [Chasm City] confirms Reynolds as the most exciting space opera writer working today.--<i><b>Locus</b></i><br><br>A worth follow-up to Revelation Space. Reynolds transmutes space opera into a nourish, baroque, picaresque mystery tale. Inventiveness and tone are Reynolds' strong points...the novel's details are consistently startling but convincing in context. Reynolds remains one of the hottest new SF writers around.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>An impressive book. Another step toward what could become a very significant 21st century hard SF career.--<i><b>SF Site</b></i><br><br>Deep, complex and always more than [it] seems. Reynolds succeeds in the hardest task of good science fiction, creating a new world full of wonder.--<i><b>The Denver Post</b></i><br><br>Successfully combines SF noir with technothriller in a dark vision of the future.--<i><b>Library Journal</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alastair Reynolds</b> was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. he stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. <i>Revelation Space</i> and <i>Pushing Ice </i>were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; <i>Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, </i>and <i>Century Rain </i>were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and <i>Chasm City </i>won the British Science Fiction Award.
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