“[Alastair] Reynolds’s depth of imagination, adeptness with
creating multi-dimensional characters, and brisk pacing are
again in evidence” (Publishers Weekly) as the author of Blue
Remembered Earth continues his Poseidon’s Children saga…
Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space
explorer Eunice Akinyaand heir to the family empire, is just
one among millions on a long one way journey towards a
planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the
journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the
Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars.
The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial
worlds—holoships—putting their faith in a physics they
barely understand. Chiku’s ship is called Zanzibar—and over
time, she will discover it contains an awesome secret—one
which will lead her to question almost every certainty about
her voyage, and its ultimate destiny…