The release date for the English version of 'Chasm City' by
Alastair Reynolds is May 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Melding Plague, a virus that can infect any body, biological or digital, has taken over the once-utopian Chasm City, a doomed human colony on an otherwise uninhabitable planet. Now, only the most miserable kind of living endures throughout the whole city, which has been corrupted from the inhabitants to the very structures they live in. Tanner Mirabel, a security officer, uses this nightmarish terrain to hunt down a low-life postmortal murderer. However, when his investigation leads him to confront a long-forgotten crime that history would want to forget, the stakes are elevated.