Reviews"Entertaining...This is warm hearted science fiction with big ideas." - Interzone "A thrilling, mind- boggling adventure." - The Times (UK) "Reynolds's approach seems new, exciting, vibrant." - SFX "A sweeping, audacious slice of galactic-scale intrigue and subterfuge." - Andromeda Spaceways "Reynolds has once again created a galaxy-spanning, mind-boggling stage on which to set a gripping, thoughtful, intelligent drama." - Concatenation
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisSix million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane-two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences-must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.