Buried under all of that chaff, are Reynold’s epic ideas about a force in the universe that once awakened, will destroy everything in it’s path, and the desperate race to stop it. The bad guys were almost mean, the good guys almost smart and nice, the prose almost interesting. The beautiful job Reynolds does of presenting us with a believable future for humanity and our alien neighbors makes it doubly unfortunate that Revelation Space suffers from a killer case of the almosts. These are the ingredients for truly epic hard science fiction, are they not? She is going to kill him.Īn obsessed archeologist whose data may save or destroy humanity, secretive and violent cyborgs in charge of ship brimming with alien weapons along with a desperately ill starship captain, and a mercenary who needs to complete her mission to save her husband, and time is running out. Ex-soldier Ana Khouri infiltrates the crew of the Infinity, for it is also her mission to find Sylveste. They believe he is the only person in the galaxy that can save their captain. Volyova and her cyborg crewmates (known as the triumvirate) aboard the Infinity follow every lead at their disposal to find Daniel Sylveste. While Syveste has wasted away on Resurgam researching his precious Amarantin, people from his past are desperate to find him. The only person he can trust is a beta level simulation of his late father, Calvin.
The government of Resurgam isn’t as stable as it seems, and on the day of the wedding Syveste finds himself behind bars, again. 10 years later, he’s still a political prisoner, but has befriended the man who took over the planet Resurgam, been allowed to continue his research, and is about the marry the lovely Pascale. Sylveste has made it his life’s work to discover what happened to the Amarantin.īut a government coup is something he can’t buy his way out of.
and then, almost magically, almost instantaneously, they were gone. They had culture, religion, a written language, and were about to discover space flight. Once upon a time, the Amarantin were a burgeoning race of intelligent flightless birds. He has spent most of his adult life researching an ancient and now extinct race of our galaxy, the Amarantin.
The son of a wealthy scientist and famous for his archaeological research in his own right, Daniel is used to things going his way, often burning bridges faster than he can build them. Reynolds opens this epic space opera of the destiny of the universe with Daniel Sylveste getting arrested on the planet Resurgam.
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