Absolution Gap

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

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

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

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

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