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Revelation Space

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
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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.

©2008 Alastair Reynolds (P)2008 Tantor Epic Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera
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"One of the best books of the year." ( Science Fiction Chronicle)
"Ferociously intelligent and imbued with a chilling logic - it may really be like this Out There." (Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days)
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Good book. Onto the next. Clever clever sci-fi. Love Silvestre. Pascal and Volypva too. keep it coming please.

Good book. Onto the next

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On the edge of hard scifi and grandiose space opera, full of twists, lore, fascinating concepts and characters. similar in many ways to the expense, but also to early Brandon Sanderson and to Noir detective novels.

Thrilling, engaging, monumental and human

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Un vrai plaisir de redécouvrir dans ce format le premier volet de ce space-opéra vraiment singulier de part ces ambiances un peu "trash" et ce côté anticipation à la Azimov... Un vrai classique conté magistralement même si aucun interlude musical, aucune ponctuation sonore ni même un bruitage ne viennent illustrer le récit.

Un Néo-classique !

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Médiocre prose and dialogs. Intrigue didn’t win me over either.
I didn’t care for the narrators and its accent.

Dry and unappealing

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I really wanted to like this series, but too many things coincided and made the whole series bad.
The world created by this author is quite fantastic, including different alien species (living or otherwise), interplanetary travel and surviving it in a sleeper pod, mishaps that could happen because of that, longevity treatments and technological advancement.
I don't know if it's the narrator or the book itself, but the switching between characters within a chapter was very confusing. I had to pay serious attention to every word to guess which character was involved now. Probably it's the narrator, because I've already listened to other books like this and it wasn't too difficult.
Finally I need to address the stigma the author perpetuates about autism. I think this is mentioned in the later books in the series, but it is clear that the author considers all autistic people as defective in the brain department. This is especially clear when the author writes that a certain character had "reverse autism" where it was brilliant and capable of very high intelligence.. Such a shame really.

I really wanted to like it

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