Evening's Empires

by Paul McAuley

Overview

In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his ship before. It was his birthplace, his home and his future.

He's going to get it back.

McAuley's latest novel is set in the same far-flung future as his last few novels, but this time he takes on a much more personal story. This is a tale of revenge, of murder and morality, of growing up and discovering the world around you. Throughout the novel we follow Hari's viewpoint, and as he unravels the mysteries that led to his stranding, we discover them alongside him. But throughout his journeys, Hari must always bear one thing in mind.

Nobody is to be trusted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780575100824
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	07/18/2013
Series:	Quiet War Series , #4
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	598 KB

About the Author

Paul McAuley won the PHILIP K. DICK AWARD for his first novel and has gone on to win the ARTHUR C. CLARKE, BRITISH FANTASY, SIDEWISE and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs. He gave up his position as a research biologist to write full-time. He lives in London. You can find his blog at: http://www.unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com

Paul McAuley (Born 1955)
Paul James McAuley was born in Gloucestershire on St George's Day, 1955. He has a Ph.D in Botany and worked as a researcher in biology at various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University, before leaving academia to write full time. He started publishing science fiction with the short story "Wagon, Passing" for Asimov's Science Fiction in 1984. His first novel, 400 Billion Stars won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988, and 1995's Fairyland won the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Awards. He has also won the British Fantasy, Sidewise and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. He lives in London.

You can find his blog at: http://www.unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com

Editorial Reviews

04/20/2015
The fourth in McCauley’s Quiet War space opera series (after In the Mouth of the Whale) is a typically imaginative and complex vision of the far future. Nineteen-year-old Gajananvihari “Hari” Pilot is a member of a family of junk peddlers, who salvage what machinery they can from derelict settlements. Hari, a clone of his deceased brother, is introduced in desperate circumstances; he’s been living on a remote asteroid for over a month, following the hijacking of his family’s spaceship. Hari was the only person to escape; he managed to take with him a human head that contains valuable research files. His dull, challenging, solitary existence is interrupted when his asteroid comes under attack; after surviving the assault, he escapes to seek the truth about his family’s fate and the files’ source and contents. The book’s greatest strength is the detailed high-tech worldbuilding, which includes creations such as a cult whose members “infect themselves with mites that construct molecular archives in the bones of their skulls.” The focus on only one character makes this installment easier to follow than its predecessors. Agent: Mic Cheetham Literary Agency (U.K.). (June)

Publishers Weekly

"McAuley has created a vivid, hard-SF space opera filled with plausible technology... while this is the fourth book in the series, readers who begin the saga here will find an immersive, complex, and exciting story that will pique interest in the earlier novels." —Booklist

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