#179 in Science fiction
Chasm City
- 608
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- BSFA Award for Best Novel
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About the book
Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by British writer Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a major nexus of Reynolds's universe. It won the 2002 British Science Fiction Association award.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 259 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 23 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 236 | 91% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“There is something very strange about reading this book a second time after having forgotten almost everything that happened in it, and having it slowly come back to you, at the same time it comes back to the protagonist.”
“I do not understand how this gets high ratings. I read a lot of sci fi and space opera. This is not well written. The dialogue is flat and the descriptions way too long. This book needed a great editor to cut it by a…”
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How long is Chasm City?
It has 608 pages — longer than 82% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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