"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...
Finally finished "Absolution Gap", final of this dystopian space opera. It took me a while to pick up the third as the second was a bit of a disappointment, I was hooked with "Revelation space" in which the potential for an epic story was laid out, disappointed with "Redemption Ark" where more chara...
I won't repeat what others already said, but let me just say that I agree the most with AudioBookJunkie's review. If you want to read something from Reynolds there are probably better books to start with. Nevertheless I really liked the convincing sci fi world that he creates in this novel, so I'll ...
"Revelation Space" was my first Alastair Reynold's book. I came to it with high hopes, having seen him compared to Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod and Neil Asher. I can see the strengths that prompted these comparisons: the ideas are bold, plentiful and on a galaxy-spanning scale; the plot is clever and w...
As a writer Reynolds owes a lot to Banks and Simmons. However, he lacks both the literary style and psychological insight of those two writers. The book is perfectly good Space Opera, but is nothing more than that really. It is also far too leisurely told. As a writer, he could have hacked hundr...
Well, I managed to avoid the DNF on this one, and indeed managed to get back to a point where I rather enjoyed the ride. I had a couple of possible outcomes for the novel. One in which all the villains and minor characters die, and all the major protagonists survive. The other in which some of t...
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