Author: Alastair Reynolds
Title: Chasm City
Alastair Reynolds has written another fine work of hard science fiction set in the Revelation Space universe. The narrator travels from one star system to another, chasing a man responsible for the death of his employer and his employer's wife. Upon his arrival, however, he slowly discovers that not everything is as it seems. The world he expected to find has been vastly altered by a mysterious plague, while his target eludes him, and he finds himself the target of more than one hunter. It's a complicated mystery set in an imaginatively bleak setting. It's a smaller story in scale than Revelation Space, with only hints at the epic scale covered in the latter work. Reynolds seems more suited to working on a grander scale, so Chasm City is slightly weaker than the other book, but is nonetheless a fine effort.