Poseidon's Children Blue Remembered Earth, Book 1, (Paperback)

from seanvk

Good book tracing the birth of interstellar sub-light travel by following generations of a family. I liked the focus on the attempts to discern the intent of the family matriarch through exploration of both her history and the race to find clues to the message she left. Really a good read.

from texascheeseman

Blue Remembered Earth Author: Alastair Reynolds Publisher: Ace / Berkeley / Penguin Books Published In: New York Date: 2012 Pgs: 512 REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS Summary: Ten thousand years of future history tracing the Akinya family from Africa across the solar system into interstellar space and ...

from Vvolodymyr

I await for every new novel by Alastair Reynolds with great anticipation, and am always left satisfied. I feel it's not an exaggeration to claim that Blue Remembered Earth is a new chapter, "A New Hope" if I may, in this wonderful author's career. Which is why it is very important to understand t...

from santhony

After decades of reading science fiction, I discovered Alastair Reynolds about three years ago and, given the scope of his work, am astonished that I had not previously encountered him. Blue Remembered Earth is the first of a trilogy of books set in the near future. Africa, India and China are as...

from wifilibrarian

3.5 stars. Set in the not too distant future, climate change has actually helped Africa's economy and there is a powerful family who have helped humans explore, and even make colonies, in the solar system. The adult grand-kids of one of the space pioneers uncover clues from beyond the grave that ...