Chasm City is a 2001 novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe and standalone within the Revelation space series. Tanner’s pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. The plot was intriguing, the characters were interesting and if Chasm City wasn't fascinating enough on it's own we also get the back story of the first generation ships to leave the Solar System on a centuries long mission to colonize Journey's End or what would become more commonly known as Sky's Edge.

How has this man changed to warrant his continued life and the final chapters describing him in terms of the redeemed anti-hero? One of the big contributing factors to this novel’s success is the atmosphere that Reynolds injects into his Revelation Space books. Tanner arrives to find that Yellowstone, the most advanced civilization in human history, has descended into squalor; an alien nanotech virus known as the Melding Plague has wreaked havoc throughout the system. I picked up on it around 1/3 of the way through, and was initially disappointed, thinking that it might be a shocking twist ending that was too obvious and heavy handed.

Chasm City follows two main characters via a narrative in which one man, Tanner Mirabel, has visions of another man, Sky Haussmann. I also found the build up nice and suspenseful, and I quite liked the resolution even though it didn’t come as a big surprise.

Recommend this book fits in nicely with the others in this series, a little sad that mankind endeavor to colonize it's first planets, and their trip over many centuries, still can't get along and greed and ambition is humans only goal. Chasm City has many of the same issues as Revelation Space – paper-thin characters and overly expository dialogue chief among them – but it’s still a pretty enjoyable dark sci-fi adventure, and I’m looking forward to getting back into the story of the main trilogy with Redemption Ark. It raises all sorts of questions about the implications that memory-scanning and -altering technology has for individuality and personhood.We see this latter phenomenon in people who suffer from diseases like Alzheimer’s—but what if we willingly added or subtracted memories rather than lost them indiscriminately and uncontrollably? Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. mirabel, my man, you are on a planet where people have their brains transplanted into animals, limbs can be regrown (including your own! Hundreds of years ago, Sky took command of one of the four generation ships en route to Sky’s Edge—then, Journey’s End.

This civilization, though we never see it much, brings to mind the decadent future milieu of Iain M. Orașul abisului este un roman ce conține suficiente elemente din recuzita genului - știință, lumi exotice, conflicte intergalactice și violența aferentă. Interesting characters (with ridiculous layers of hidden personalities and memories that only get triggered at certain times and and and).I thought about it for days after I had read it, and my memories of its stand-out scenes still send shivers up my sci-fi loving spine. Din păcate, ca în multe cărți hard SF, personajele sunt deficitare, mai mult niște umbre ce populează mărețul spațiu imaginat. And the sinister transformation of Sky from somewhat innocent child to an outright anti-hero is fascinating in a cold way.

This story was all sorts of cool, projecting a very goth vibe with the long high collared trench coats and big guns blazing from the hips. Although it is sometimes labelled as Revelation Space book 2, they reckoned this was the best book and has the advantage of being readable as a standalone story. I changed my feelings about the main one several times during reading, from pure hatred to pity and sympathy and now that I finished it, I have no idea whether I hate him or not. Reynolds pulls off a reveal both complicated and potentially corny enough that it could have ruined the entire book.Lumea Orașului abisului este însă foarte bine dezvoltată și destul de coerentă, conținând detalii tehnice, dar și altele ce dau veridicitate (etnografie, mitologie, religie etc. Along with his own memories, Tanner begins having intense, realistic dreams that remember parts of the life of Sky Haussmann, the vilified founder of Sky’s Edge.