Chasm City

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Chasm City is the story of what happens when utopia is hit by an epidemic. The story is told through the eyes of Tanner Mirabel, who decides to travel to the city, to avenge the death of a clientÃ¢s wife. It seems like an easy job, since he knows who killed her. The murderer is a Ã¢postmortal,Ã¢ someone who has extended their life through technology. However, when Mirabel arrives in Chasm City, he finds chaos and destruction, hardly the hallmarks of utopia. He soon learns that a virus has struck both humans and machines and brought the city to its knees. Of course, he too is struck by the virus, and Tanner begins having hallucinations about the hero of his own society, which reveal some of the terrible things this man did to build up TannerÃ¢s own society. Why It Made the List It won the British Science Fiction Association award in 2002. ItÃ¢s one of the few non-American books on the list. So if you want something more international, this might be the book for you. Read It If You Likeforeign civilizations, revenge plots, mysterious illnesses

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