#61 in Science fiction
House of Suns
- 409
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
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About the book
House of Suns is a 2008 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.6 across 348 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Books | 9.0 | 6 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.6 | 342 | 98% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“It's an incredibly long and boring book. The world-building is okay - immortal characters, millions of years, the whole galaxy. But the plot is a detective story with a stupid and irrelevant main twist and mind bogglingly boring space travel and combat. I do not recommend it.”
“Probably one of the most ambitious Science Fiction works I've read in terms of chronological scale. Most other science fiction works might cover thousands or maybe 10's of thousands of years. This work spans millions of years, and does so in a way that feels…”
Frequently asked
How long is House of Suns?
It has 409 pages — shorter than 58% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
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