Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross

Neptune's Brood

By Charles Stross

  • Release Date: 2013-07-02
  • Genre: Science Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 86 Ratings
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Description

The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct—for the fourth time—due to its fragile nature.
 
Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She’s on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, suspects that there’s more to Krina’s search than meets the eye.
 
He’s correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value—capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn’t know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana.
 
And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the Carnet once it is whole—and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale…

Reviews

  • Major nerd cred

    4
    By PhysicsNerd96
    While primarily a book about economics i was suckered by the intricate descriptions of the distant future. Right on the border of hard science fiction as everything in the book is possible in theory.

  • Satisfying

    4
    By GetSetGo76548
    Slow start but fine finish. I will read more from this author

  • Great Hard Sci-Fi

    5
    By hdboomy
    I was enjoying Stross's descriptions of an interstellar economy enough when I thought they were just world building. It was great to see them turn into major plot mechanics for the story. Also, it was nice to see a space opera that focused on sisterly love, rather than steamy romances.

  • Sci Fi Forensic Accounting: Galactic Scale

    4
    By bgilmore
    Well, not quite galactic. Stross makes my blood pressure rise as he pulls me along in his stories. Here the economics of an interstellar civilization are central: how are money transfers handled across interstellar distances? And what about the pipe dream of faster than light travel? Or really fast sublight or just lightspeed travel? If that sounds less than riveting, you underestimate Stross. Totally different than Saturn's Children but also enchanting.

  • Tedious

    1
    By traipse
    Very little story in this story, the author fills the pages with tedious details that are painful to get through. For some excitement I had to stop every so often to read the manual for the microwave. Definitely not the author's best work and a waste of $10.

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