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  • Series: Poseidon's Children
  • Hardcover: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Ace (February 2, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0425256790
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425256794
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.9 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful
I love Chasm City
By Staeheli Markus on May 16, 2015
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What a bore! I've read all of Mr. Reynolds books so far. I love Chasm City, , Revelation Space, The Prefect and House of Suns (read them multiple times) and struggled with others (Pushing Ice, Century Rain and Terminal World). I was excited about this book. I didn't really like the first one of this trilogy but the second one really got me going. Boy was I disappointed. I like the two story lines from Goma and Kanu's point of view. But the whole Tantor/Risen storyline is so boring that I had to put the book down every 30 minutes because I started to skip parts of it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Unimpressive finale of a partly great trilogy
By Bjørn Boivie Myrland on July 29, 2015
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This is the third and final volume of the Poseidon's Children trilogy. The trilogy as a whole is of good Reynolds standard, imaginative, thorough, well-written and with characters that are varied and interesting. The first book, Blue Remembered Earth, was awesome, full of suspense and drive. The second book, On the Steel Breeze, had a dramatic change to a slower pace, with fewer environments, and even though some of the ideas did not "do it" for me and the pace was on the slower side for a while, staying to the end turned out to be worthwhile with some good Reynolds-class hypersized drama. So, what to about Poseidon's Wake, the final volume? I found it of varying interest, the first part was promising and interesting, and I liked the way it brought various characters and threads of the previous volumes together. Also, Reynolds had some grand ideas brewing -- but they never really blossomed, it felt like the author ran out of energy at the end of the marathon and never really finished it properly. A symptom of this I think is the many long and elaborate dialogues and explanations that made progress at only snail pace; the need to let the characters and narrator explain the action with so many words instead of letting the action speak for itself sucking the reader along with it like I am used to with Reynolds. The finale was a huge disappointment, given the grandiose setting and mystery on a "fate-of-universe" scale, following the characters through some long-winded, pointless rock-climbing-like scene without any bearing on the overall plot was just incredibly frustrating.
I would give the trilogy as such 4 stars, but Poseidon's Wake I can only give 2. Reynolds can do MUCH better than this.
Recommendation: Read Blue Remembered Earth, it stands fairly well on its own and is a great read. If you are curious on the continuation, read On the Steel Breeze. Finish up with Poseidon's Wake only if you are really hooked but keep your expectations at bay.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Absolutely Beautiful
By Zac on June 21, 2015
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An absolutely beautiful trilogy. Poseidon's Children as a whole is beyond anything I've ever read (and I've read all the heavy-hitters). What a realistic and beautiful future he envisions. I would love, love a fourth book, a fifth, and on.

Revelation Space is a dark yet realistic view of the far future, and it's great. Conversely, Poseidon's Children is a hopeful, realistic, and beautiful view of the next thousand years. The levels of originality are astounding and continually leave me hopeful for a less than bright future. These books are different than all his other works and I believe they are a culmination of his imagination and skills as a writer.

I can't recommend them enough. Bravo, Mr. Reynolds and sincerely, thank you for this world/universe you see.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
This is the margarine of literature.
By Ralph Becket on September 29, 2015
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This is the margarine of literature. I challenge you to read passages from this book out loud and not have passers-by throw up at the endless, tissue-wringing concern every damn character feels compelled to evoke.

What a disappointing end to the trilogy.

Look, I get that Alastair Reynolds is following the "grown up" space opera trajectory where you start off with novels about space pirates, planets blowing up, existential threat, villains with philosophies, etc. All that stuff is great. Then the author settles down, maybe has children, and their novels become less dramatic, the characters more nuanced, the plots more subtle. Also good stuff. But in the name of all that is holy, please don't fall off the deep end here and have everyone Care Just So Much About Everybody's Feelings that your books turn into group counselling sessions. I struggled to finish this blancmange of a tale.

Reynolds, you owe me some space pirates after this one.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
so far so good, Most of his books are good to great ...
By Honest review man on June 22, 2015
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so far so good , Most of his books are good to great but there are some that are not up to his skill as a writer . Terminal world , on a steel breeze are 2 I really didn't like but the others were really good my favorites are Chasm city , house of suns , the prefect , galactic north , thousand nights , and the rest are very good too . I found myself wanting to skip around on the first two I talked about in this review .
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good read though
By Joachim Almquist on September 7, 2015
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It could be that it is because of the family theme but I found some of the characters and twists to be somewhat predictable. Then again, I'm more of a fan of Alastair Reynolds more dark and sinister space opera. Good read though, 4/5
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Waterworld
By Kay Smillie on November 20, 2015
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Not sure why it is mooted as a standalone when it is obviously a third of a series. I thank Poundland for introducing me to Alastair Reynolds (Blue Remembered Earth hardback) and whilst this isn't as good as the first two in the trilogy, it is still a damned good read with an ending which suggests a fourth in the series. I sincerely hope so.

Ray Smillie
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