'Reynolds injects a good old fashioned sense of wonder into his science fiction by combining a story of epic scale with a series of awe-inspiring revelations, each more breathtaking than the last. The finale is thrilling, moving and humane. This is Reynolds' best novel to date." -- Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "Reynolds retains a highly readable style which allows him to dip into solid technology without losing the pace and he fleshes out a convincing background to his world." -- Anthony Brown STARBURST "A crisper style that recalls hard SF from the '60s and '70s. This nod to the past seems fresh and new." -- Dave Golder BBC FOCUS "A splendid example of SF as the literature of ideas, and depsite its longueurs is another triumph for Reynolds." -- Jes Bickham DEATHRAY "The book's final revelations are near perfectly judged. Ultimately it's this that gives his novel real heart and soul - an infinitely rarer commodity than any amount of self-consciously insouciant cool." -- Jonathan Wright SFX "His writing is solid, his characterisation intriguing; a fine entry for Reynolds." SCi FI NOW "Reynolds has written a hugely entertaining extrapolation of contemporary mores: a far-flung comedy of manners, with fascinating precedents. This is warm hearted science fiction with big ideas that are easy to follow. House of Suns might well be the author's most human novel to date." -- INTERZONE "Reynolds understands and uses hard science, giving an aura of plausibility to his wildest flights of fancy. As well as visionary brilliance, Reynolds also supplies a knock-your-socks-off ending. A thrilling, mind-boggling adventure." -- Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES "He remains as devoted as ever to innovative, hard sf, gigantic, family-sized space opera. What ensues is a chase story across vast tracts of both time and space, veering closer to Iain M Banks's territory than Reynolds's earlier books ventured. Like its technology, when it starts moving, it moves at one hell of a clip." -- Andrew McKie THE TELEGRAPH "As well as being an intelligent writer, he shows that he has an awful lot of heart." -- Roz Kaveney TIME OUT "I abandoned science fiction years ago, except for the Discworld books, but a friend insisted I read House Of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. I tried it, became hooked, and have now read everything he's written. Alastair Reynolds is an astrophysicist, so he knows his stuff, but what really distinguishes him is a galaxy-sized imagination allied to a real story-telling ability." -- Bernard Cornwell
