Iron Sunrise

Name: Iron Sunrise
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Charles Stross
ISBN: 9781440718892

Author: Charles Stross

Series: Singularity #2

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 15 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/17/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Bestselling author Charles Stross’ novels have garnered numerous awards and nominations, including several Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award selections. In Iron Sunrise, a godlike future-being known as the Eschaton has enabled humans to achieve interstellar colonization and near speed-of-light travel.

Just before planet Moscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, its ruling body launches a misguided counterattack against the innocent neighboring system of New Dresden. The strike can’t be recalled without a code known only by a handful of government officials—and they’re being assassinated one by one.

Now it falls to U.N. operative Rachel Mansour to protect the final codeholder and find out who’s behind this galactic set up. But her best hope lies with Wednesday Shadowmist, a teenage girl who doesn’t even know she holds the answers.

“Compelling space opera and cutting-edge tech with a tasty dash of satire … Stross skillfully balances suspense and humor throughout … Offering readers a fascinating future that seems more than possible.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

About Charles Stross

CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale â€œEquoid.â€ His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the worldâ€™s first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on November 30, 2018

What could possibly kill a god? How could humanity threaten a vast, distributed AI so intelligent that its scale is incomprehensible, its goals opaque, and its power practically limitless? What weaponry could injure a being that can break the laws of causality at will, simultaneously communicating w......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on February 27, 2019

-Con ingredientes de buena calidad no hay garantía de que el plato salga delicioso. Al final es cuestión del desempeño del cocinero.- Género. Ciencia ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro Amanecer de Hierro (publicación original: Iron Sunrise, 2004) nos trasladamos al planeta Vieja Terranova Cuatro,......more

Goodreads review by Jason on March 16, 2012

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Regular visitors will know that I'm currently in the process of reading every novel sci-fi author Charles S......more

Goodreads review by Megan on June 16, 2017

The first Charles Stross book I ever read was Singularity Sky, the first book in this series. I was in a different city, and I'm not quite sure what made it jump off the shelf of the used bookstore as something to read while I went to one of my first academic conferences. I was, however, baffled by......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on April 24, 2011

I used to have a religious no-quitting policy when it came to finishing books. Even if the thing was terrible, I would slog through it till the last page, worried I was doing the author a disservice by not giving it a fair shake. Now, however, I'm a busy adult with a full-time job and a to-read list......more