Chasm City
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Chasm City
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
|---|---|
| Published | 2001 |
| Pages | 608 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Alastair Reynolds’s standalone revenge novel in the Revelation Space universe: a hunter arrives in Chasm City, humanity’s most advanced settlement, after a plague that infected nanotechnology rather than cells turned its self-building machinery into something deformed and half-alive. |
Chasm City
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier under Sci-fi / Also worth reading, listed with the Revelation Space series.
About this edition
It sits outside both of the universe’s sub-series — the one volume that stands alone, and the best single entry point if a trilogy is too much of a commitment. For a reader who thinks about infrastructure, the interest is the failure mode: a city whose systems build themselves, and can therefore be corrupted.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Alastair Reynolds — the author.
- Revelation Space · Redemption Ark · Absolution Gap — the Inhibitor sequence.
- The Prefect · Elysium Fire · Machine Vendetta — the Dreyfus novels.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.