Revelation Space
by:
John Lee (author)
John Lee (author)
Alastair Reynolds (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400159550 (1400159555)
Publish date: January 5th 2009
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Series: Revelation Space (#1)
"Your tenancy here has expired." If you've ever looked up at the night sky and asked yourself "Where the hell is everybody?" this novel proposes a toothsome solution. "Revelation Space" lacks the sense of mischief that something like Iain M. Banks “Excession” has but has just as strong a love of Big...
Well, given that I tried to read Pushing Ice and ended up DNFing it, I liked Revelation Space a lot more than I expected to.Which isn't to say, mind you, that I particularly liked Revelation Space.Oh, I liked the core of it well enough. Alastair Reynolds has one heck of an imagination, that much is ...
This is the sort of book that makes me glad that I participate in a book group, as I wouldn't otherwise have read this. It's a superb space opera, though it is nowhere as melodramatically silly as the label might suggest. And while Alastair Reynolds's scientific expertise contributes to the strength...
I love stories that are able to combine large scope, hard approach to scifi tech, mythology or a spiritual element, and enough of a mystery to provide suspense. RS delivers on all of the above.
Quite simply the best science fiction novel I have ever read, and I've read some great ones. Dan Sylveste sets out on a quest to find out why an ancient alien society was wiped out soon after they discovered space travel. What he discovers was one of the more original concepts I have ever come acros...