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The Remembrancer’s Tale
- Author
- David Zindell
- Narrator
- Ethan Kelly
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 March 2023
- Run Time
- 21 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk, Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Classic science fiction, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
- Rating
- 1.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
‘David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’ Gene Wolfe
What happens when a man tasked with developing perfect memory forgets the most important thing in the universe?
After a cataclysmic stellar war, peace has come to the trillion human beings who live on the Civilized Worlds. In Neverness, the City of Light, the pilots of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians resume their ancient quest to discover the real purpose of the human race. Crucial to their success will be a mastery of the One Memory, believed to hold the secret of how humanity might evolve.
Thomas Rane is the Order’s Lord Remembrancer. He has become the teacher to a new generation of humans called the Asta Siluuna – the star children – and so has a crucial part to play in the development of the human race. But at the end of the war, his beloved – the mysterious and beautiful Maria – died.
Memory is strange, and Rane comes to believe that Maria might have survived the storm. Perhaps a memory virus left over from the war has robbed her of her identity and she wanders the streets of Neverness, lost and alone. Perhaps she's still out there, among the stars.
Critics Review
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‘David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson — perhaps the finest’
Gene Wolfe‘NEVERNESS streaked across the firmament as one of the great romantic epics of modern SF’
Locus‘Philip K. Dick would have been proud to conjure up such philosophies’
Manchester Evening News
User Reviews
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Impossible to listen to - full of cringe-inducing tropes, made worse by the pedestrian narration. Brr! Can I give this back???
Erna K. 2024-01-15
Details
- Author
- David Zindell
- Narrator
- Ethan Kelly
- Duration
- 21 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 March 2023
- ISBN
- 9780008495718
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk, Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Classic science fiction, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
- Rating
- 1.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 1.0(1 review)
Synopsis
‘David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’ Gene Wolfe What happens when a man tasked with developing perfect memory forgets the most important thing in the universe? After a cataclysmic stellar war, peace has come to the trillion human beings who live on the Civilized Worlds. In Neverness, the City of Light, the pilots of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians resume their ancient quest to discover the real purpose of the human race. Crucial to their success will be a mastery of the One Memory, believed to hold the secret of how humanity might evolve. Thomas Rane is the Order’s Lord Remembrancer. He has become the teacher to a new generation of humans called the Asta Siluuna – the star children – and so has a crucial part to play in the development of the human race. But at the end of the war, his beloved – the mysterious and beautiful Maria – died. Memory is strange, and Rane comes to believe that Maria might have survived the storm. Perhaps a memory virus left over from the war has robbed her of her identity and she wanders the streets of Neverness, lost and alone. Perhaps she's still out there, among the stars.
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