Creation Machine, Andrew Bannister
Creation Machine, Andrew Bannister
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Creation Machine
A Novel of the Spin

Author: Andrew Bannister

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019

Synopsis

A "space opera on steroids" (Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer), Creation Machine is Andrew Bannister's whip-smart debut novel of action-packed science fiction adventure. Set in a stunning galaxy called the Spin, this is the first in a trilogy--an interstellar saga encompassing multiple generations of future humanity.

In the vast, artificial galaxy called the Spin, a rebellion has been crushed.

Viklun Hass is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter.

But Fleare Hass has had time to plan her next move from exile to the very frontiers of a new war.

For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of the Spin have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found.

About Andrew Bannister

Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. After initial feints towards music and engineering, he eventually studied Geology at Imperial College, London, and went to work in the North Sea oilfields before becoming an Environmental Consultant.Andrew is an active volunteer, focusing on children with special educational needs. He is currently the Vice Chair of Special Olympics Leicestershire and Rutland.He has always written and been a voracious reader. He has now discovered that writing science fiction, like his Spin Trilogy (Creation Machine, Iron Gods, Stone Clock) is at least as enjoyable as reading it, but takes longer.

About Caitlin Davies

Caitlin Davies is a New York City-based actor and audiobook narrator. Davies specializes in audiobooks for teens and young adults, including the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. She has performed in New York and regional theaters and is a member of the WorkShop Theater Company in New York City. She has a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, and has studied acting at the Eugene O'Neill National Institute, the British American Drama Academy, the Barrow Group, and Brown University/ Trinity Rep.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk

When I read the synopsis for this I thought I was getting into some mega-scale sense-of-wonder Science Fiction a la Stephen Baxter (the Spin is an artificial galaxy, and the creation machine is, well, a machine that played no small part in its creation - no, it's not a spoiler, it says so right on t......more

Goodreads review by Liviu

review on reread Nov 2019 - while the sort-of-sequel Iron Gods has been out for a while now, I kind of forgot about it until recently when I started browsing it, but before starting seriously on it, I felt I needed a full reread of Creation machine which is the introduction to the Spin Universe and......more

Goodreads review by Elana

I used to love space opera. I don’t anymore, and novels like this are the reason. It involves artificial galaxies, simulated personalities, a lot of palace intrigue of an unpleasant kind, a man who has become a cloud of nano-particles, a woman who is pissed off with her corporate father, a rebellion......more

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Praise for Creation Machine

“Ambitious, compulsively readable.”—Guardian

“[T]he worldbuilding is unusual and inspired.”—Publishers Weekly

“A beautiful space opera.”—SciFi Now

“Great action . . . enjoyable and accessible.”—SF Book Reviews

“A colorful debut that conjures up the same kind of gnarly, lurid weirdness that made Iain M. Banks' SF epics so memorable.”—SFX

“A thrilling debut . . . delivers in spades.”—SFF World

“An impressive debut. This is space opera on steroids."”—Robert J. Sawyer, author of Quantum Night

“An excellent read that ticked the boxes for me.”—Neal Asher

“Fast-paced, intelligent SF, action-packed, and immersive.”—Adrian Tchaikovsky

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