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Revelation Space
Amazon.com's Price: $7.99
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441009428
ISBN: 0441009425
Item Dimensions:
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: May 28, 2002
Publisher: Ace
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Studio: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441009428
- Condition: New
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.
Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defenses: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire rest-mass of the galaxy." Now an intuition he doesn't understand makes him explore the dead world Resurgam, whose birdlike natives long ago tripped some booby trap that made their own sun erupt in a deadly flare.
Meanwhile, the vast, decaying lightship Nostalgia for Infinity is coming for Sylveste, whose dead father (in AI simulation) could perhaps help the Captain, frozen near absolute zero yet still suffering monstrous transformation by nanotech plague. Most of Infinity's tiny crew have hidden agendas--Khouri the reluctant contract assassin believes she must kill Sylveste to save humanity--and there are two bodiless stowaways, one no longer human and one never human. Shocking truths emerge from bluff, betrayal, and ingenious lies.
The trail leads to a neutron star where an orbiting alien construct has defenses to challenge the Infinity's planet-wrecking superweapons.
At the heart of this artifact, the final revelations detonate--most satisfyingly. Dense with information and incident, this longish novel has no surplus fat and seems almost too short. A sparkling SF debut. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
Product Description:
Alastair Reynolds's critically acclaimed debut has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Hard Sci-fi From a Bonafide ScientistThere are about six million astrophysicists in the world. That makes them one in a million.
Precious few of those six million, however, can write a galactic-wide tale of the magnitude achieved by Alastair Reynolds in Revelation Space (RS).
For that reason alone, you ought to buy this book.
Since I want to keep this review spoiler-free, my synopsis will necessarily be vague: Several hundred years into the future, Dan Sylveste, the son of a wealthy, aristocratic family engaged ... Read More
Rating:
- I hateevery character in this book. What a bunch of @55h0les. Forced my way through it at the beach then sold it back to the place I bought it from (thankfully used). I'll not be trying any more of this author's works.
Rating:
- Starts slowly, but builds your anticipation...In Revelation Space, you'll be exposed to futuristic cyborg "ultra-humans," ageless mysteries, other intelligent races, self-repairing spaceships, new weapons systems, planetary politics... really, there is so much that is different here that it seems overwhelming to the reader. You really have to keep track of a lot.
And although the plot is slow to unfold, and jumps around in time and space, author Alastair Reynolds does get it done. The mystery is huge, and will affect all life in ... Read More
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- Uneven, Bizarre,...Despite its *numerous* problems, this book kept me reading until the last page to see what would happen. (Then I threw it across the room into the donation box, cursing profusely.)
Revelation Space is a conundrum. The characters are so two-dimensional and shallow it is almost impossible to tell them apart, the pacing may be the worst I have ever read, the editor should be fired (and reminded how to use spell check), the author needs writing lessons; and yet, it was a good yarn -- mostly. ... Read More
Rating:
- Fantastic!This book is great, one of the best hard science fiction novels I've read in a while. The character developement is supberb and the plot kept me rifeted throughout.
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