Neptune's Brood
Jul 2013 · Hachette UK
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Neptune's Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.
Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing, she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.
In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.
She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.
Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing, she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.
In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.
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61 reviews
Kathy Clark
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16 July 2023
Someone got a thesaurus for Christmas and decided to use it. Initially I was irritated by constantly having to look up multisyllabic words which interrupted the story's flow until eventually it all became a bit of a joke. Also the constant blather about finances with the same Pinot being told and retold in a myriad different ways was really condescending. I managed to hang on until the bitter end just to see the outcome of the storyline which was intriguing. So if you were brought up reading Thesaurus and medical dictionaries with a degree in accountancy then this is the book for you.
Dave Van Damme
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03 August 2014
Scifi can get a caught up in its own imagination, but the financial spin woven into this book was a great breath of fresh air
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Patrick Douglas
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12 May 2015
Never thought a space opera based on finance would be any good but this was a rip roaring read.
About the author
Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http://www.accelerando.org/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross.
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