Century Rain is a science fiction/mystery book by author Alastair Reynolds (ISBN 0575074361). Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author. ...
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As 'Century Rain' opens, Wendell Floyd, an expatriate American living in Paris, and Andre Custine, his partner, are hired by a concerned landlord to investigate the death of one of his tenants. When they're not detecting, they're musicians, but the music biz has drained away because Floyd's ex, Greta, has left Paris to pursue a career with a better band. Blanchard the landlord is certain that the death of Susan White, which the Parisian police have written off as an accident, is murder. Floyd is not so certain, but he's willing to investigate. In a scene seemingly from another novel, Verity Auger finds herself responsible when her archaeological dig beneath the frozen ruins of some far-clung future Paris goes terribly wrong. The victim of political infighting, she's going to be hung out to dry for all the wrong reasons.
As 'CenturyRain' opens, Wendell Floyd, an expatriate American living in Paris, and Andre Custine, his partner, are hired by a concerned landlord to investigate the death of one of his tenants.
'CenturyRain' presents the reader with a passel of mysteries, both internal to the plot of the novel and external, at least initially, in that the two narratives have little in common other than Reynolds, fine detailed prose.
'CenturyRain' represents a departure for Reynolds from space opera, and shows that he's clearly a talented writer able to innovate, explore new forms and still keep the reader riveted.
Even though the Latter Rain of the 50's faltered and fell into disrepute with the tragic death of William Branham and the repudiation by the Assemblies of God it was kept alive by certain survivors and reintroduced in a veiled manner into the Charismatic Renewal of the 60's and 70's.
The outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost was seen as the early rain in which the church was planted and the end of age revival was the latter rain, a divine preparation of a last days harvest and the signal of the soon return of Jesus.
The term "Latter Rain" was used freely by the early Pentecostal pioneers as well as the term "apostolic." The early Pentecostals were convinced that not only would there be a Latter Rain global revival but the last days church would be restored to the apostolic pattern.
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