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On the Steel Breeze
On the Steel Breeze | Alastair Reynolds
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The award-winning author of Blue Remembered Earth continues his saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future... Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and 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…
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On the Steel Breeze | Alastair Reynolds
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Okay this one is hard to review. Reynold's is a favorite sci-fi author and this trilogy(of which this is the second book) is styled as his optimistic vision of the future. Colonist ships on the way to a new planet, an earth which is at peace and regulated by a machine intelligence, rogue AI's, uplifted elephants and a trio of clones each engaged in their own adventures. Not his best book which felt rushed in part. But still a good read.

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