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Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by British writer Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity , memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a major nexus of Reynolds's universe.
Chasm City was the largest settlement on Yellowstone, easily dwarfing Ferrisville, the second largest. When Americans originally settled the Epsilon Eridani system by Von Neumann robot, the location of Chasm City -- a huge crater spewing unusual gases -- was spotted.
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is a 2001 novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe and standalone within the Revelation space series. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a major nexus of Reynolds's un...
is framed and largely written in the voice of Tanner Mirabel, a security expert who has come to Chasm City to avenge the death of his former client's wife at the hands of a "postmortal" noble named Argent Reivich.
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. Chasm City, a dense forest of mile-high shapeshifting skyscrapers, has melted into a slum. The Glitter Band, a sparkling diorama of ten thousand orbital habitats, has been reduced to a "Rust Belt" of a few hundred survivors, mostly primitive and pre-nanotech antiques.
In this chaos of plague and desolation, Tanner seeks his prey, only to discover that Reivich is more clever than he originally thought. In the midst of his hunt, he begins experiencing virus-induced flashbacks from the life of Sky Haussmann, the founder of his home world Sky's Edge, who is both revered and reviled for the crimes he committed for his people.
From the depths of the gas plume at the heart of Chasm City, to the aristocratic canopy spanning what remains of the skyscrapers, Mirabel begins to unravel the mystery of the Melding Plague.
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Sep 6, 2022 · Tanner Mirabel is on the hunt. His former employer and employer’s wife have just been murdered by a rival seeking revenge. He’s left his home planet of Sky’s Edge for Chasm City, the shining jewel of humanity’s colonization of the cosmos, to further his chase.
Chasm City is a sociologist's dream laboratory of contrasts between third world, sewer drenched squalor in the Mulch and first world disdain above. The two populations interact only when the post humans descend into the Mulch for the Game, which involves hunting down human prey.
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Chasm City, a dense forest of mile-high shapeshifting skyscrapers, has melted into a slum. The Glitter Band, a sparkling diorama of ten thousand orbital habitats, has been reduced to a "Rust Belt" of a few hundred survivors, mostly primitive and pre-nanotech antiques.
