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To make this closer to a "conventional review" let me add the two major things Evening's Empires is predicated on - no real spoilers as this is where the book starts:The big picture: after the Quiet War's finale (see Gardens of the Sun), humanity flourished in many forms as described in the awesome vignettes of Life After Wartime.However everything ends so the True Empire - brutal, militaristic and hierarchic and racially exclusive as the "true humans", in other words they considered that only p...
Boring, DNF. Sibling tries to avenge family death by travelling around solar system habitats. Gagarian's Head
Oh I do enjoy taking a trip around Paul McAuley's future solar system, chasing secrets and technological maguffins and odd sub-cultures in odder places, pursued by assassins and cultists and the past in a quest for the future. Our hero is Hari, marooned after his ship is boarded and his family is killed or captured. He escapes with the head of a scientist locked full of knowledge, and lots of people are after it while Hari himself wants to find what, if anything is left of his family and gain so...
In “Evening’s Empires”, Paul McCauley demonstrates that not matter how weird the solar system may become in the future, certain truths like, it can be ill advised to try and follow in your father’s footsteps, still hold true. There was a good deal I liked about this book. McCauley has built an imaginative and plausible future history for humankind (and post humankind). There are no aliens, instead the weird is us and we are the weird. Unfortunately a fantastic setting and a bunch of great ideas
Really about 3.5 stars. The main character, Hari Pilot, is quite compelling. The plot is intricate and there are numerous twists of fate. This is Book 4 in a series that starts with The Quiet War and it's fun to see echoes of characters and events from earlier books appear in this book.
Pretty weird, actually pretty good!
This was a very good book, and a fitting end to the Quiet War stories. McAuley may not intend for the book to be the last he writes in his Quiet War universe, but the story in this book provides a relatively satisfying closure to the broad narrative started many books ago with the Quiet War. I would welcome another Quiet War book with open arms and eager, ready-to-read eyes (probably purchasing it as soon as it became available in the U.S. -- these books don't seem to stay in print here for very...
This was my first ever Paul J. McAuley book and I must say it left me feeling kind of confused. Wait. Not kind of. Very.Superficially at least, this book is about a young man on a Voyage of Discovery and Revenge and Heroics, as he goes to save/revenge his killed/kidnapped family while learning to stand on his own two feet.Deeper down this book is about two contrasting religions, of which neither side is afraid to use force in order to prove their religion is the Right Religion. Or something. At
I enjoyed this very much. I'd go so far as to say it's the best of the four books of the Quiet War series. It has the simplest, most linear storytelling, with a single primary protagonist. The setting is complex and not that close to those of the previous novels, as it happens after the previous novel -- and that was set multiple light-years away in the Fomalhaut system. So with the lightspeed lag, it is centuries later than anything we've encountered in the story before.The characters travel ar...
