I Read Books: Evening's Empires
Evening’s Empires After the events of In The Mouth Of The Whale , back in the solar system, the Bright Moment occurred; a memory of fabled geneticist wizard Sri Owen-Hong of a man on a bicycle. The solar system itself is in somewhat of a fractured state; the True Empire fell after attacking a seraph (post-human intelligence) in orbit around Saturn. The seraphs retaliated by blocking sunlight to the Earth, triggering ecological devastation (for the second time in the sequence; see The Quiet War ). None of this is directly relevant at the start; Hari the youngest son of a ship’s captain has found himself marooned on an asteroid after raiders took over the family ship. They were looking for Dr Gagarian, a tick-tock (cyborg) philosopher (scientist) who was studying the Bright Moment aboard ship. Hari escapes with Dr Gagarian’s head and its secrets and goes on a long tour around various habitats and other locations in the solar system, trying to find out who attacked the ship, w...
