Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
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Century Rain

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 19 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/04/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

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: mid-twentieth-century 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.

About Alastair Reynolds

Born in Barry, South Wales, Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. He is the author of many short stories and twelve novels, including Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and House of Suns.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on August 14, 2021

If one can´t avoid the nanocaust, try at least fixing the problem with the help of time travel. Now that´s a completely different Reynolds novel than one is used to, no extremely far future with unbelievable highly developed tech, but instead with 2 relatively close futures, or even presents, or past......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on July 05, 2020

Q: “Are you Asimov-compliant?” “No,” the robot said, with a sting of indignation. (c) Q: “I didn’t come all this way for nothing,... I’m not going to let a little space-time difficulty spoil my day.” (c) Atta girl. Q: “But at least you cared. At least you were ready to do something.” “This little mess.........more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 24, 2019

This might become one of my favorite Alastair Reynolds novels. Why? Because he manages to turn one hell of a tale out of a kitchen sink worth of ideas. Great characters, from an ex-jazz musician/gumshoe from an alternate-timeline 1959, to a complex archeologist 300 years in the future sifting throug......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 12, 2017

Ova knjiga je mis mas svega moguceg. Imamo klsaicnu detektivsku pricu, alternativnu istoriju, putovanje kroz vreme, klasicnu naucnu fantastiku, itd... i sve to smuckano na skoro 700 strana. I moram priznati ovaj buckuris je sasvim dobro uspeo. Nisam to ocekivao :) Samu pricu necu spominjati sem da ka......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on May 10, 2024

I read this wonderful book back in 2011, without knowing that Alastair Reynolds will become my favorite SF writer. Think about a noir-alternate universe-postapocaliptic-hard SF novel. Oh, and I forgot about the horrible scary children-fighters who hunt the main character at some point, so this novel......more