Revelation Space

Name: Revelation Space
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.89 (19 reviews)
Author: Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 9781400179558

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Series: Revelation Space #1

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 22 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason. And if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself—could be irrevocably altered.

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 mark on September 07, 2011

i suppose you could call Alastair Reynolds the Bad Twin of Peter Hamilton. both write space operas that come complete with mind-boggling concepts, galaxy-spanning adventures, bizarre aliens, space politics, love stories, and eons-old mysteries. but Hamilton writes about a future that despite having......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on April 10, 2021

Different entities, old powers, mind parasites (hopefully symbiotic), flesh metal hybridization, dangerous artifacts, 2 badass fighter femme fatales, ancient sentient superweapons, a short glimpse at Chasm City, and good old potential apocalypse in the hardest space opera out there in the endless an......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on June 03, 2021

This is a complete revamp of my Revelation Space review which I posted in 2011 when I was two years old or something. I have since read the three books in the Revelation Space Trilogy and several other novels set in the author’s “Revelation Space universe”, his very own MCU without the M or the C. T......more