Revelation Space

Paperback, 560 pages

English language

Published May 3, 2001 by Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-1-85798-748-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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 starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason — and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself — could be irrecoverably altered….

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4 stars

Densely plotted and densely written, this novel does take a bit of getting into, but once you do it's a spectacular hard sf space opera. The scope of the noevl is massive, to put it mildly, but the major characters are well developed enough to keep you engrossed in their very human ambitions and defeats. It's an utterly stunning book and one that, if nothing else, will leave you with a mindbending appreciation of just how strange and vast the universe can be.

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction