Revenant Gun (Machineries of Empire)

by Yoon Ha Lee

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

PS3612.E34884

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: The stunning conclusion to the mind-bending series Shuos Jedao is awake... ...and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet-a nobody-in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he can't remember committing. Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant. And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted-by an enemy who knows more about Jedao than he does himself....

Collection

Rating

(180 ratings; 4.1)

Publication

Solaris (2018), 400 pages

Pages

400

Physical description

400 p.; 5.5 inches

Awards

Hugo Award (Nominee — Novel — 2019)
Locus Award (Finalist — Science Fiction Novel — 2019)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (Shortlist — 2019)
British Science Fiction Association Award (Shortlist — Novel — 2018)

Media reviews

It is a fitting and compelling conclusion to one of the most striking space operas I’ve ever read.
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Revenant Gun is a fast, gripping story. Its shifting viewpoints – all seeing some part of the picture, none with a complete view or good insight into other people’s motivations – and potential for betrayals make it feel complex and demanding. At base, though, it’s a thriller crossed with a
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story about learning to live with consequences you didn’t choose.
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Yoon Ha Lee stuck the landing, and in doing so cemented that the Machineries of Empire series is one of the most ambitious and rewarding science fiction series in print.
Lee’s Machineries of Empire is one of the finest science fiction achievements of the decade, and deserving of every accolade thrown at it. Machineries of Empire has a reputation for being brain-breaking and imaginative, which it is, but, by its conclusion, it’s also approachable and amusing,
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warm-hearted, even as it’s sinking its claws into your back, funny, furious, and endlessly creative. Revenant Gun, like the volumes before it, comes with my highest recommendation.
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LCC

PS3612.E34884

Language

ISBN

1781086079 / 9781781086070

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