Redemption Ark - The Library of the Uncommons

Kindle, 708 pages

English language

Published Dec. 10, 2009 by Gollancz.

ASIN:: B0047COPGM

Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.

Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race ... and awakened the Inhibitors.

On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity.

Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion.

This …

Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.

Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race ... and awakened the Inhibitors.

On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity.

Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion.

This is British SF at its absolute best.

6 editions

Keith Stevenson reviewed Redemption ark by Alastair Reynolds (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2)

Review of 'Redemption ark' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Once again, I'm consuming this via the Audible audio version, oh so very ably voiced by John Lee who perfectly encapsulates the world weary, snitty characters that inhabit the worlds of Redemption Ark. Reynolds plots really take the long view and it was very enjoyable to see Easter eggs planted in Revelation Space and Chasm City being picked up in this next chapter. There is so much happening in this novel, and indeed the whole series, it feels like something I'll listen to again and again over the years - which is also how I feel about BBC Radio 4s beautiful adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy.