The novel is set in the Twenty-sixth century, the human race has expanded across the galaxy, finding witnesses and numerous ruins of alien civilizations, but not entering the contact with any of it apart from the mysterious Mental Jugglers (mysterious entities that populate the oceans of many planets storing memories and thought patterns of everyone with whom they come in contact) and Cortiniani (the builders of the mysterious curtains, screens that distort the space time, it seems that Cortiniani created them to hide potentially too advanced technologies). Reynolds
travel cancellation superbright: the spaceships can only approach the speed of light, with the consequences that this entails. The current work is intertwined with the famous Fermi paradox (where are the aliens?) Painting at the end of the novel, a magnificent fresco on a cosmic scale. There are some classic elements posthuman (brain implants, cloning, artificial personalities) but not seen in the hyperinflation Posthuman typical of a certain kind of science fiction with Reynolds back to a more space opera charts, based on the narrative suspense, questions about cosmic emotion of discovering the mysteries of the universe around us.
The narrative proceeds, classically, in terms of three different characters who are reunited at the end making a final vibrant, perhaps too much. The main shortcoming of the work is in fact the concentration of the "discovery" of the "revelation" of what kept dark for almost the entire novel in the final few pages, not giving time and opportunity to the reader to assimilate fully the lessons learned. Despite the characterization of the characters leave a bit 'to be desired, reading is still recommended as the charm of the immortal themes, paradoxes, and the meaning of life and the universe, which deals with Reynolds.
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