House of Suns

A spectacular, large-scale space opera - the ultimate galaxy-spanning
adventure

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian
fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings.
Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document
the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred
thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their
siblings.

Campion and Purslane are not only late for their thirty-second reunion, but
they have brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward
shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery
that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is
a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings
have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of
who is persecuting them, and why - before their ancient line is wiped out of
existence, forever.