Blue Remembered Earth

Name: Blue Remembered Earth
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 9781464049644

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Series: Poseidon's Children #1

Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Unabridged: 21 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/05/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history … out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society. One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey’s grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked—well, blackmailed, really—to go up there and make sure the family’s name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise—or anyone else in the family, for that matter—what he’s about to unravel. Eunice’s ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards …

About Alastair Reynolds

Born in Barry, South Wales, Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. He is the author of many short stories and twelve novels, including Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and House of Suns.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on February 18, 2012

Much fuss in the SF publishing world has been made about the fact that in 2009 Alastair was given a large sum of money, allegedly £1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years. Though the steam-punky Terminal World was published in 2010, it seems that......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 22, 2014

Excellent novel that left me tearful, but perhaps not for the traditional reasons. There are certain sci-fi ideas that always kick my ass, and one of them are stories about how the stars open up. I certainly got very emotional by the end of this novel, and that might have been a little more surprisi......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on March 20, 2024

This is positively chipper compared to the author’s other works. Now, to be honest, when I read the synopsis I was a bit wary of Blue Remembered Earth, but I decided to read it because I really wanted to read On the Steel Breeze, which is actually the second book in the trilogy. Turns out there is qui......more

Goodreads review by Jason on March 24, 2013

5 stars I have been a huge fan of Alastair Reynolds for a long time thanks to his incredible Revelation Space series. Blue Remembered Earth is a very different type of novel from the series mentioned. This is a science fiction light novel told only the way that Alastair Reynolds can do it. This is an......more

Goodreads review by Lena on August 06, 2020

Un-for-gett-able. A new millennium foundation work of solarpunk and afrofuturism. It’s hard to believe this has not been snapped up and made into a series. Fools! ‘Poseidon’s children,’ he repeated. ‘Is that supposed to mean something?’ ‘We came through. That’s all. We weathered the absolute wor......more