Neptunes Brood

#2 Freyaverse

Charles Stross

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ACE BOOKS
24 June 2014

Adventure; Science fiction; Space opera; Space; Space Exploration; Faster Than Light; Galactic Empires; Space Ships

Series: A Freyaverse Novel

The year is AD 7000. The human species is nearly extinct - for the fourth time - due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, believes that there's more to Krina's search than meets the eye. He's correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value - capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn't know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana. And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the carnet once it is whole - and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale...

By: Charles Stross
Imprint: ACE BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 172mm, Width: 107mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9780425256305
ISBN 10: 0425256308
Series: A Freyaverse Novel
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 24 June 2014
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella ( The Concrete Jungle ), Stross has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. His books include Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, Accelerando, Halting State, Glasshouse, Saturn's Children, Wireless, Rule 34, and The Laundry Files ( The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum, The Apocalypse Codex, and The Rhesus Chart ).

Reviews for Neptunes Brood (#2 Freyaverse)

Witty, smart, and more relevant than you d expect, this is a thoroughly entertaining sci-fi mind-expander from one of the genre s most reliable imaginations. SFX A wonderful bouquet of ideas. Boing Boing The fun part comes from the way Stross devises his robotkind to act as humanity s successor species to imagine them not as intellects vast, cool, and unsympathetic but as very much like us, writ not large but as merely durable. Locus Agreeable characters, a fascinating backdrop and brilliant plotting, with a further outlook of lengthy grins and occasional guffaws. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)