Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds
Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds
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Redemption Ark

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 27 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors—alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons—and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes—and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.

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

Trying to break free from potential extinction by quarreling about the right use of alternative, time travel induced, defense options. The philosophical implications of what good leadership could look like are immense. Would it be right to limit the civil liberties of some groups to avoid disadvantag......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel

This is a very frustrating book to evaluate. There is a *great* 400 page novel sitting inside this flabby 700 page slug. Reynolds has a great imagination and is extremely thoughtful. This is fantastic hard sci-fi told on an epic scale. Well, almost hard sci-fi, he flirts (needlessly) with breaking t......more

Goodreads review by mark

i'm just going to copy and paste this from a group, because i'm lazy that way. okay maybe i'll edit it a little bit too. for kicks. it was a good book overall, and i enjoyed it as much as its predecessor. lots of great concepts to digest and i'm still digging the basic idea behind the enemy threat of......more

Goodreads review by Apatt

Revelation Space was the first Reynolds book I read, I imagine it is the starting point for most Reynolds readers as it is his best known and breakthrough book. While I quite like some of Revelation Space I was not exactly won over by it. I found some of it quite hard to follow and the pace flagged......more

Foarte buna continuare. Aproape toate problemele primului volum au fost rezolvate, imbunatatite. Abia astept sa citesc volumul trei. Recomand cu caldura pentru orice pasionat de S.F. Very good continuation. Almost all the problems of the first volume have been solved, improved. I can't wait to read......more