Chasm City Alistair Reynolds

Chasm City

First Published 2001
616 Pages

UK ISBN-10: 0575073659
UK ISBN-13: 978-0575073654
US ISBN-10: 0441010644
US ISBN-13: 978-0441010646

Synopsis
Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. But Chasm City is not what it was. The one-time high-tech utopia has become a Gothic nightmare: a nanotechnological virus has corrupted the city's inhabitants as thoroughly as it has the buildings and machines. Before the chase is done, Tanner will have to confront truths which reach back centuries, towards deep space and an atrocity history barely remembers.