House of Suns
by Alastair Reynolds
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appears in Best Artificial Intelligence Books, Science Fiction, and Science.
Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memor...
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appears in Best Artificial Intelligence Books, Science Fiction, and Science.
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