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On the Steel Breeze

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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 Chiku Yellow is earthbound: living a peaceful life on a changing world as humanity explores a thousand new ways to experience life.

Chiku Red is space-bound: blasted into deep space to investigate Eunice Akinya's last journey, and maybe discover the final secrets of space travel.

Chiku Green is planet-bound: travelling thousands of lightyears to the planet Crucible. A new home for humankind; it's a habitable planet hosting a fascinating alien labyrinth.

All three are Chiku Akinya.
All three are pivotal to our future in space.
All three are in danger...

Read by Adjoa Andoh

(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group©2013 Alastair Reynolds Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

Critic Reviews

As good as contemporary SF gets. (Jonathan Wright)
On The Steel Breeze is a brilliant, self-assured, colourful space opera- with talking elephants. (John Wyatt)
The book is not merely a sequel, but a standalone adventure with heart. (Val Nolan)
Clever, thoughtful, feel-good SF. (John Wyatt)
Alastair Reynold's On the Steel Breeze moved his ambitious Poseidon's Children's series into interstellar space. (Adam Roberts)
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Really well thought out plot, not predictable at all, kept you interested to the last word!

fantastic!

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A 5 star journey into the latest incredible world of Reynolds's crafting, with fantastic journeys fraught with peril and humanity's confronting of the alien and the self, with new ideas and bright refreshing characters, brought to life indeed by this new Narrator - who does the author proud. Dip your toe in!

Another epic immersive from Reynolds

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It does alright. A good sequel. It was well paced and had a good direction. The ending was consistent. All in all if you’ve heard/read the first book then it’s worth getting this one. Hopefully the last book is as good.

It’s good.

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His writing just gets better and better... The story line, characters and the world constructed are all excellent. As always, it starts slow and confusing but once I got into it I just could not stop...

The reader is pure awesomeness in her ability to perform so many different accents and personalities... One of the best I have heard so far.

I'm generally very picky, but this one I highly highly recommend!

Absolutely stunning story and performance!

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