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''Century Rain'' is a 2004 Noir Science Fiction Alternate History mystery book by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds (ISBN 0575074361). PLOT SYNOPSIS As ''Century Rain'' opens, Wendell Floyd , an Expatriate American living in 1950s Paris , and André Custine , his partner, are hired by a concerned Landlord to investigate the death of one of his tenants. When they're not detecting, they're Jazz Musician s, but the music business has drained away because Floyd's ex, Greta, has left Paris to pursue a career with a better band. Blanchard the landlord is certain that the death of Susan White, which the Parisian Police have written off as an accident, is Murder . Floyd is not so certain, but he's willing to investigate. In a scene seemingly from another novel, Verity Auger finds herself responsible when her Archaeology dig beneath the frozen ruins of some far-flung future Paris goes terribly wrong. The victim of political infighting, she's going to be hung out to dry for all the wrong reasons. But when she is summoned on a mission to Mars by the top-secret security agency Contingencies, Auger is more than relieved to be exempt from her tribunal and the years of prison that she would otherwise have to face. However, when she is taken to a secret underground base on the Martian moon Phobos containing an ancient alien relic that opens a portal to a distant part of the galaxy, and told that she is to go through it, she begins to have second thoughts about continuing with her mission. Things get even more bizarre when she finds out that at the other end of the portal is an alternate-history version of Earth in the year 1959 - almost 300 years behind the present time - and that she is to retrieve a tin of documents that was left behind by Susan White, an earlier agent sent to "Earth Two", who died under mysterious circumstances. |
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