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Name: On the Steel Breeze
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Year: 2013
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Popularity: 1.5
Genres/categories: Science fiction

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ISBN:
9780425256336
0425256332
It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.
is the follow-up to
. It is both a sequel and a standalone novel, which just happens to be set in the same universe and revolves around members of the Akinya family.
The central character, Chiku, is totally new, although she is closely related to characters in the first book. The action involves a 220-year expedition to an extrasolar planet aboard a caravan of huge iceteroid 'holoships', the tension between human and artificial intelligence... and, of course, elephants.
Lots of elephants.
This book is part of the "Poseidon's Children" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Blue Remembered Earth
First published 2012
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Poseidon's Wake
First published 2015
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