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House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

> Reynolds (The Prefect) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella Thousandth Night in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that saves them from a massacre. Allied with potentially hostile Machine People and an enigmatic post-human god called the Spirit, armed only with fragmentary records and hints that Campion's research provoked the mysterious House of Suns, the Gentian survivors struggle to find and stop their enemies before the genocide can be completed. Intriguing ideas and competent characterization make this a fine example of grand-scale relativistic space opera.

I would recommend House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds.

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. There are no aliens, but there is a robot race. FTL does not exist. The space farers go into stasis during journeys. There is an interstellar chase scene that lasts tens of thousands of years.

zem beat me to the punch with 'Last and First Men' I can't recommend this book more. If you're in a country with copyright laws of life +50 years then this is in the public domain i.e. free and legal to download (I'd recommend Gutenberg Australia).

Not a novel but a similar concept to 'Last and First Men' is Dougal Dixons Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (to navigate to each chapter, click on the links at the bottom of each page; 200, 300,....5 million years hence).

Frank Herberts Dune explores the idea of the evolution of humanity with the Guild Navigators, Mentats, Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax etc. [mini rant](/s"Although his son has stated in his toilet paper worthy novels that these aren't so much cases of gradual evolution as sudden developments that seem to fit well into a narrative in order to make money")

Robert Reeds novel Sister Alice tells a story spanning hundreds of thousands of years with humans having gained godlike powers. Also by the same author and in the same vein I'd recommend Marrow and The Well of Stars.

Alastair Reynolds also did a good job with House of Suns; very similar to 'Sister Alice'.

Can you believe I've typed that twice because of a blue screen of death.

My favorite sci-fi novel, I never miss a chance to promote is House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. It transcends the genre, in my opinion. I wish more people knew about it.

I also like The Dispossessed.

Alastair Reynolds - House of Suns

Also I think you would be able to detect the massive spot of nothingness in your field of view.

Edit: There is a book by Alastair Reynolds called House of Suns where an alien race uses similar technology to cloak a galaxy.