Revelation Space
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his...
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starshi
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780575087743
Publisher: Orion Books
Pages no: 585
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...
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