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Wonderful though Reynolds' Revelation Space novels are, you could argue that particularly in regards to his more recent work, he seems to operate or a freer, more imaginative and simply more expansive manner in the galaxy spanning books outside his more famous universe. That was certainly the case with Pushing Ice and now with House of Suns , he finds another way of compressing time and space on an unimaginable level across millions of years (and light years) through the agency of a race of cloned humans of the Gentian Line. The Gentian line have been around long enough to observe and record the vast changes that take place in the galaxy, watching cultures come and go, intervening when asked to create Star Dams using the ancient technology of the advanced Priors, but primarily seeking information about the mysteries of the universe. Campion and his consort Purslane have however inadvertently stumbled upon a piece of information that someone doesn't want revealed, a secret that...