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Revelation Space is a 2000 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds...

Revelation Space is a 2000 hard 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 Reynold'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. Excavating the 900,000-year-old Amarantin civilization on its home world, Resurgam, archaeologist Dan Sylveste discovers evidence of a splinter cult that abandoned Resurgam for the stars but returned, only to be swallowed up by a mysterious cataclysm that destroyed all the Amarantins. Aboard the Nostalgia for Infinity, a vast light-hugger ship in interstellar space, the Triumvirate of cyborg starfarers seeks Sylveste to heal its captain, afflicted by the deadly Melding Plague. The Melding Plague is a pathogen of initially unknown origin which infects both biological entities and any sufficiently advanced nano-technology, melding and distorting them with gruesome and disastrous results. In Chasm City on the