Radiance
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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About the book
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father's love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave - for she is a realist in a fantastic alternate universe, in which Hollywood occupies the moon, Mars is rife with lawless saloons, and the solar system contains all manner of creatures, cults and colonies. For Severin's latest project she leads her crew to the watery planet of Venus to investigate the disappearance of a diving colony there. But something goes wrong during the course of their investigations; and her crew limp home without her. All that remains of Severin are fragments. Can these snippets of scenes and shots, voices and memories, pages and recordings be collected and pieced together to tell the story of her life - and shed light on the mystery of her vanishing? Clever, dreamy, strange and beautifully written - Radiance is a novel about how stories give form to worlds.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 58 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 58 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“This is one of those books that leave me undecided about whether I like it or not. (I'm giving a three-star to be generous.) I loved the idea of an alternate universe where the silent movie era is coupled with space travel. Wonderfully imaginative idea…”
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It has 432 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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