Blue Remembered Earth
- 637
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Blue Remembered Earth” opens the “Poseidon’s Children” trilogy with confidence. In the near-utopian 2160s, two adult siblings try to solve a mystery, and Reynolds uses their search to sketch a more hopeful future than his earlier fiction offered. Some readers who came for his other space opera report the same pleasure here. At well over six hundred pages, it wants a reader with time.
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About the book
Blue Remembered Earth is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, first published by Gollancz on 19 January 2012. It describes the efforts of two adult siblings to solve a mystery in the pseudo-utopian 2160s. The novel is the first of the Poseidon's Children trilogy, which follows humanity's development over many centuries, with the intention of portraying a more optimistic future than anything Reynolds had previously written. The second book in the trilogy, On the Steel Breeze, was released on 26 September 2013, and the trilogy's finale, Poseidon's Wake, was released on 30 April 2015.
Reading order · Poseidon's Children
Full order & progress →- Blue Remembered EarthThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - On the Steel Breeze
7.97.9 / 10 - Poseidon's Wake
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 132 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 132 | 100% |
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How long is Blue Remembered Earth?
It has 637 pages — longer than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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