Iron Sunrise
Charles Stross
Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~8.2 hr
The Algebraist
by Iain M. Banks (2004)
About this book
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely heard of — part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony — Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer — a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he’s ever known.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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