Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days |
|
 | Diamond dogs was the first Alistair Reynolds story I read some years ago, (when it was published by PS Publishing as a single novella before even Revelation Space was released) and it was a perfect introduction.
In Diamond Dogs the characters are forced to use outlawed technology to alter and augment themselves in order to progress, almost computer-game-style, up a series of increasingly (mentally and physically) challenging levels of the alien Blood Spire, an artifact discovered and kept secret by one of the protagonists, who gathers together a group of singularly-skilled individuals to conquer it. They suffer indescribable punishment along the way, and always there are unanswered questions: what is at the peak? and why are they compelled to continue?
Throughout are references to "back home" where the melding plague is taking over Chasm City (and we have to read later books to find out) and this grounds the story well in the wider universe which Reynolds has created.
The abstract ... read more.
Written by Alastair Reynolds.
Published 30 January 2005.
Published by Ace Books.
rrp £15.02.
240 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0441012388
ISBN-13: 9780441012381 | |
| |
|
Retrieving prices, please wait ...
If you can't see any prices after a few seconds, click here
|
|
|