Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel set in the Revelation Space universe, although the then-unnamed universe had already been established by several published short stories.
The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in Astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency.
Revelation Space was short listed for the 2000 BSFA and...
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Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel set in the Revelation Space universe, although the then-unnamed universe had already been established by several published short stories.
The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in Astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency.
Revelation Space was short listed for the 2000 BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
Revelation Space starts off with three seemingly unrelated narrative strands that eventually meet—and merge—as the novel progresses. This plot device is characteristic of many of Reynolds's works.
The book opens in the year 2551 on Resurgam, a planet considered a backwater on the edge of colonized human space. Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist, leader of the colony, and wealthy scion of a prominent scientific family, leads a team excavating the remains of the Amarantin, a long-dead, 900,000-year-old civilization that...
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