An “engaging and awe-inspiring”(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels. Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence...
“I have only your word for that.”
“Yes,” the glass man said, “that’s rather the point. There’s going to have to be a lot more trust from this time forward. Why don’t we start as we mean to go on?”
Chapter 41 (p. 563)
House of Suns (2008)
“Do you see us slavering for revenge, that most pointlessly biological of imperatives?”
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 41 (p. 558)
“We were sowing so much misinformation that some of it came back and bit us.”
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (pp. 516-517)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (p. 509)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 38 (pp. 501-502)
Introduction to Part 8 (pp. 485-486)
House of Suns (2008)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 19 (pp. 307-308)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 19 (p. 307)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 152)
Introduction to Part 2 (p. 100)
House of Suns (2008)
“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 59)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 1 (p. 3; opening words)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 8 (pp. 84-85)
Introduction to Part 4 (p. 267)
House of Suns (2008)
Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 240)
Introduction to Part 2 (p. 100)
House of Suns (2008)
