Scur, a soldier in an interstellar war, wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship. The ship is failing, they don't know where they are, and the prisoners are trying to kill each other.
Alastair Reynolds
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A world dying from ecological catastrophe sends four people back in time to try to find seeds that can grow in the new environment, but someone is trying to stop them.
"Per Ludecus woke with his face pressed to black marble. He remembered almost nothing. He had no idea where he was or how he had got there. He was laid out too artfully to have just stumbled and blacked out. It was more as if he had stretched out to sleep,...