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The Remembrancer’s Tale

By: David Zindell
Narrated by: Ethan Kelly
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‘David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’ Gene Wolfe

What happens when a man tasked with developing perfect memory forgets the most important thing in the universe?

After a cataclysmic stellar war, peace has come to the trillion human beings who live on the Civilized Worlds. In Neverness, the City of Light, the pilots of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians resume their ancient quest to discover the real purpose of the human race. Crucial to their success will be a mastery of the One Memory, believed to hold the secret of how humanity might evolve.

Thomas Rane is the Order’s Lord Remembrancer. He has become the teacher to a new generation of humans called the Asta Siluuna – the star children – and so has a crucial part to play in the development of the human race. But at the end of the war, his beloved – the mysterious and beautiful Maria – died.

Memory is strange, and Rane comes to believe that Maria might have survived the storm. Perhaps a memory virus left over from the war has robbed her of her identity and she wanders the streets of Neverness, lost and alone. Perhaps she's still out there, among the stars.

©2023 David Zindell (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Cyberpunk Interstellar

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"David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson — perhaps the finest." (Gene Wolfe)
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Since I first discovered the original book, Neverness, in my younger days, this sprawling far future tale has gripped me like no other story. The world building, the familiar but alien words used for common items, the flowery prose is akin to a Wordsworth poem that spans 1000 pages. The character studies are compelling and realistic and the stories, grand in their conception. David Zindell has created an entire universe from scratch, complete with a myriad alien races and full functional cities that can be easily imagined. The technology used is very far future, and the spiritual element adds depth to the story. It's almost comforting to think that a million years from now, vestiges of the now will still have ramifications and utility.

As this is the first of the novels to be brought to this format, I can only hope the others in the series are given the same treatment, and hopefully with the same narrator, who did a fantastic job on this one. I am so glad it was an English narrator chosen, as it fits the prose perfectly. May you fall far Mr Zindell, keep them coming...please.

The epic Saga continues...HURRAH!

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