Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds
Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds
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Absolution Gap

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 27 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/29/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence—and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety—or draw down its darkest enemy.

And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse.

About Alastair Reynolds

Born in Barry, South Wales, Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. He is the author of many short stories and twelve novels, including Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and House of Suns.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on March 27, 2022

The final stages of an epic journey filled with goodies for fans, sci fa elements, a big WTF plot moment, more indoctrination virus and melding plague fun, and tons of goodies, innuendos, and connotations for fans of the series. Melding Plague, hyperpigs, inhibitors, and psi babies The melding plague......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 24, 2010

What a disappointment! This last book alone adds 662 pages to the series. It continues the brilliant weaving of complex and advanced ideas, but even early in the book I started thinking, "This is getting a little silly now". It built to what promised to be a stunning conclusion, then ends with a gre......more

Goodreads review by mark on October 07, 2016

imagine a gigantic gothic spacecraft, a Lovecraft in space, a horrifying monster of a ship captained by a man who is the ship itself. Captain John Brannigan! the oldest human in the galaxy; or rather, "human" ... the old captain fell prey to both a terrible melding plague and his own tortured though......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 11, 2021

This is the fourth novel I've read by Alastair Reynolds, and I have to admit that while it took me a bit of time to get into the writing, the effort is never wasted. The build-up is slow but very steady, and I can honestly say that the final explosions are quite good. There's always something else t......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on November 06, 2016

Absolution Gap: Overlong, tedious and frustrating conclusion Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Absolution Gap (2003) is the third book in Alastair Reynolds’ REVELATION SPACE series of large-canvas hard SF in which post-human factions battle each other and implacable machines bent on exterminatin......more