House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

Table Of Content

• A Felicity (the Character) Deep Dive With Keri Russell (Eps. 120-
• From the Remembrance of Earth's Past series
• LeBron James faces a summer of big decisions after the Lakers were sent packing
• Clippers look ahead to playoffs after win over Suns that encapsulates their season
• Column: Hart’s Jim Ozella sets example of how to coach in the age of uncertainty
• Books

Like LeBron opting for a second stint in Miami or being the piece who helps the Knicks back to glory in the Big Apple. On the one hand, the Lakers would obviously be happy to have LeBron back as he remains one of the NBA’s best players despite his advanced age. The Lakers can feel like they’re close, too, after holding the lead for nearly 70 percent of their first-round series against the Nuggets. Both The Athletic and ESPN reported that Darvin Ham is likely to be fired.

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A Felicity (the Character) Deep Dive With Keri Russell (Eps. 120-

However, Phoenix got a healthy, All-NBA level season out of the 35-year-old Durant. The future first-ballot Hall of Famer averaged 27.1 points in 75 games, the most he’s played since he suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in the 2019 finals with Golden State. House of Suns alternates between the two timelines, slowly revealing how the Gentian Line was formed by Abigail six million years ago, and the current search to understand who has targeted the Gentian Line and why. There are a lot of far-future detective elements, some epic battles, and the longest chase scene since Redemption Ark. By long, I don’t mean in page count, but rather spanning 60,000 light years.

From the Remembrance of Earth's Past series

The truth was that I hadn’t, but his email immediately set in process a chain of thought. Actually, it would be kind of fun to pick up those characters again – there was so much more I could say about their society and customs and universe. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. Unable to get within weapons range, Campion pursues Purslane’s ship for sixty thousand light years, during which time he and Purslane, on their separate ships, are suspended in "abeyance", a form of temporal slowdown or stasis. Despite efforts to stop the hijacked ship from reaching the concealed wormhole by local civilisations, the robot Cascade succeeds in opening the "stardam" enclosing the wormhole and travelling through it to the Andromeda Galaxy. On board Silver Wings of Morning, Hesperus reveals to Campion that while he managed to destroy Cadence before they could leave the Neume star system, Cascade survived and he and Cascade had engaged in a marathon battle, several thousand years.

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The galaxy is populated by numerous civilizations of humans and posthumans of widely varying levels of development. A civilization of sentient robots known as the Machine People coexists peacefully with humanity. Technologies of the era include anti-gravity, inertial damping, force fields, stellar engineering, and stasis fields. Also of note is the "Absence"—the mysterious disappearance of the Andromeda Galaxy. Even depleted, Lue had his group playing hard and with a purpose against a Suns team fighting for playoff positioning in the Western Conference. The Clippers (51-29) have two regular-season games left before the postseason starts on April 20, so at some point they hope to be whole with Leonard back in the lineup.

Clippers look ahead to playoffs after win over Suns that encapsulates their season

Bewildered by this sudden change of events, Purslane delays in acting, not sure if she should trust Hesperus, before deciding to ask the ship to detain and eject the robots in the bridge. Cadence and Cascade hack into the ship's computer, taking it over, and take off from Neume with Hesperus and Purslane still aboard. Campion and several other shatterlings immediately launch a pursuit. Last season, Leonard played in the first two playoff games against the Suns but sat out the rest of that series and it was revealed later he had a torn meniscus in his right knee. Sources around the league have largely believed all season that LeBron’s strong preference is to remain with the Lakers for the remainder of his career.

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He's about to turn 31, he has three years of super max money left on his deal, he comes with a number of injury concerns and also has a no-trade clause. Even if the Suns could move him, it's hard to imagine them doing so for the kinds of players they need right now. The Suns have limited roster flexibility and are heading down another year of going with veteran minimum guys again as they did last season to fill out the roster. Plus Eric Gordon, Drew Eubanks, Josh Okogie and Damion Lee, who missed the entire season with a knee injury, all have player options going into the final year of two-year deals. Monty Williams was fired after coaching the Suns to the playoffs for three straight seasons.

The plot is complex but not overly-so, for which I was grateful. In fact, the relationship of Campion and Purslane is surprisingly poignant for a hard SF epic, and I grew to like them and their machine companion Hesperus. There is also a fascinating post-human intelligence known as The Spirit of the Air which plays a big role in the final acts, along with the “disappearance” of the Andromeda Galaxy. The final third of House of Suns is a series of ever-expanding reveals that are pretty mind-blowing, and best of all, the ending actual seemed plausible and was not just a massive battle in space as often happens. It was a more philosophical approach than I had expected, and moving as well. Southern California’s allure and the Lakers’ storied history will always make the Lakers a destination for stars.

No team in NBA history has ever come back from down 0-3 to win a series. Beal was acquired in a massive package for the Suns' former floor general Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, and a glut of future first- and second-round draft picks. The Suns have a first-round pick at No. 22 overall this June, but don't have another first-rounder until 2030. Now, time is running out on the Suns, facing a colossal shipwreck for this season in which they had championship expectations.

They will have to send out at least as much money as they take in. They'll even have to worry about future first-round picks getting frozen at the end of the first round if they stay in this salary range long enough. Super-teams didn't fully exist as a concept yet outside of Boston, whose three best players were all in their mid-30s. The league wasn't nearly as deep, and it wasn't as smart, either. The 2011 Rockets had a top-five offense with Kevin Martin as their leading scorer because they were one of the few teams to optimize their shot-selection.

In the end, the league was good enough even in 2011 to prevent itself from being dominated by three players alone. And that is where our two prospective super-teams fully diverge. The NBA of 2011 was designed to allow super-teams to improve and slowly accumulate depth over time.

I’d been invited to contribute a story to an anthology entitled “One Million AD”, edited by Gardner Dozois. From my first encounter with HG Wells’ The Time Machine, through to Clarke’s The City & The Stars and the Urth sequence of Gene Wolfe, I have always been in thrall to the distant future. I had dabbled in far future settings with my Merlin stories, but they were set a mere 72,000 years from now – barely beyond the middle of next week, in cosmological terms. The commission allowed for something set vastly deeper into the future, and I revelled in the possibilities.

After Murray's clutch shot, Taurean Prince heaved up a half-courter that fell short, sending the Lakers to an early exit despite taking the defending champs to the brink in all five games. The document states Doerman returned from work early that June 15 when he picked up a Bible and started walking around the house with it. "We can't think they're gonna give us a game because they're down 3-0. They want to win a game. They don't want to go out getting swept, so we gotta come out and be ready to compete at a high level." "I’m the type to focus on the next game. It’s a play by play, possession by possession, they say nobody’s ever done it before, so that’s exciting," Booker said. Being down 3-0 in a playoff series and possibly eliminated at home in Game 4 is demoralizing. WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - David Contreras, charged with the murder of his 21-year-old son Eric Contreras, will be placed under house arrest following a court decision on Tuesday.

Washington swept Toronto in the East's first round of the 2015 playoffs, and Beal's last playoff run when Philadelphia ousted Washington in the same round, 4-1, in 2021. In the West, the Warriors could make another run after expressing interest in LeBron before the trade deadline. It shouldn’t shock anyone if his BFF Draymond Green is doing his best to recruit him following his playoff exit.

Lee and his son, Colin, were at an after-school party in 2021 when something similar happened. Strong winds picked up the inflatable Colin and three other kids were playing in. The two teams will meet in the first round of the playoffs.

Jusuf Nurkic averaged a double-double of 10.9 points and 11 rebounds in his first season with the Suns, but he struggled to finish inside and the T-Wolves big Rudy Gobert got the better of him in this series. The Suns have now been eliminated from the last three playoffs on their home floor. The Phoenix Suns began this season with Mat Ishbia saying they have the “best team” in the NBA. Hesperus is discovered to have a human arm underneath his metal exterior, a fact that even he can't explain due to his amnesia. And another guest of theirs mysteriously dies during the journey to the reunion. But worst of all is that when they get to the Reunion planet, they find it utterly wiped out.

He owns a home in Las Vegas, where he’s held a residency for the last nine years, and earlier this year, he shelled out $20.5 million for a vacation home in Hawaii. That’s what awaiting Phoenix next season, but this offseason will greatly determine if the Suns put themselves in good position to take on those conference challengers. The Suns managed to land the sixth seed because they owned the head-to-head tiebreaker over New Orleans. Looking ahead, the Suns will face an even more formidable Western Conference next season.