Poseidon's Wake

De: Alastair Reynolds

Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh

"Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds" (Toronto Star), the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze.

In the conclusion of his Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars - and a last opportunity to redeem their name....

"Send Ndege". The cryptic message originated 70 light-years away from the planet Crucible, where Ndege Akinya lives under permanent house arrest for her role in the catastrophe that killed 417,000 people. Could it be from her mother, Chiku, who vanished during a space expedition decades earlier?

Ndege's daughter, Goma, a biologist, joins the crew of the Travertine dispatched to Gliese 163 to uncover the source behind the enigmatic message. Goma's odyssey will take her not only into the farthest reaches of space but centuries into her family's past, where the answers to the universe's greatest mysteries await....

©2015 Alistair Reynolds (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group

Excellent performance

this was a excellent audio performance paired with a reasonably good conclusion to the trilogy but not the equal of the first or second books

a great conclusion to the series probably not

what a great book all in its own Kama I can't wait for the next one.

Excellent reading

Loved the reader of this story. Distinct characters. Great story and very interesting . Would highly recommend this book

5 Stars because I HOPE this series is DONE!

The "ELEPHANTS - IIIIN - SPAAAAACE" (Insert Dramatic Echoing on the word "SPAAAAACE") theme is WAY past "Old" and into the realm of "Getting Ridiculous"....

I've spent some time in Africa, Seen the "Wild Elephants" (not the ones in "preserves"), and there's one sad, but HARD truth, about Africa... "If an Animal Species can't support itself monetarily, with enough money coming in to hire HONEST Game Wardens and to pay for the land they're living on, the animal species has a short time left on earth in Africa" ..."The Great White Hunter" didn't make a DENT in the Elephant Population.. The AFRICANS kill(ed) 99% of the Elephants that are (and have been in the past) killed.

I don't like it, but I don't have to like it, it's "Africa", and they do things "The African Way".... I.E: "No no no no! Absolutely you can NOT go there or see that".. and then 'a little money changes hands', and suddenly you Absolutely CAN "Go There and See That"... WITH transportation, AND a government guide!

For another 10USD per day, you can hire people to haul your gear, set up tents, DOUBLE-Boil your water, and cook your food (tip, make SURE the cook washes their hands, and that the plates, utensils and cups are 'Bleached and BOILED', AND that they Cook your meal VERY VERY 'WELL DONE!')... "No" simply means "Not until we get a small 'gratuity' for allowing you to do whatever it was you wanted to do"

I can't wrap my mind around how Mr. Reynolds can write some books that are SO DEEP and FANTASTIC, and then write about "ELEPHANTS - IIIIIN - SPAAAAAACE".

Sorry, but EVERYTHING I've seen firsthand about Wild Elephants tends to lead me to the belief that they are kinda like "not-smart Horses" in the Brain department... Like Horses, You can always tell exactly what an elephant is going to do... "Whatever goes through their little Elephant/Horse Mind at that EXACT SECOND".

The whole "Flying around in a Cessna with a herd of Smart Elephants in a hidden Section of a Generation ship" takes MUCH more than just "Suspending reality 'since it's Sci-Fi'".

Another brilliant story from Reynolds

Reynolds has become my all-time favorite sci-fi writer, for good reason. This book continues to follow the Akinya family as they make history. It's a book you can't stop listening to.