The Remembrancer's Tale

David Zindell is a talented author who has written a novel called Neverness. It is about a man named Thomas Rane who is tasked with developing perfect memory and forgetting the most important thing in the universe, which is the secret of how humanity might evolve. Rane teaches the Asta Siluuna, the star children, and believes that Maria, his beloved, may have survived the war. Memory is strange, and Rane believes that Maria may have been robbed of her identity and is lost and alone among the stars.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 16 February 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest Gene Wolfe has ever written. 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 Orders 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.

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008495695