Poseidon's Wake
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Our view
“Poseidon’s Wake” closes Alastair Reynolds’s “Poseidon’s Children” trilogy on the same grand scale as the two books before it. Family ties and artificial minds run through a story that follows humanity’s descendants ever further into the galaxy. Some readers call it a fitting end, smoother than the second volume; others find it flat. It is no place to begin: read “Blue Remembered Earth” and “On the Steel Breeze” first.
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About the book
Poseidon's Wake is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It forms the conclusion of Reynolds' Poseidon's Children future history trilogy, which follows the expansion of humanity and its transhuman descendants into the galaxy over the course of many centuries. Poseidon's Wake follows Blue Remembered Earth (2012) and On the Steel Breeze (2013), and was published by Gollancz on 30 April 2015.
Reading order · Poseidon's Children
Full order & progress →- Blue Remembered EarthStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - On the Steel Breeze
7.97.9 / 10 - Poseidon's WakeThis book
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 54 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 54 | 100% |
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