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Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds
Put on your best implants, listen to the relaxing sounds of a flowing river of blood and gore and relax in your reefer unit, I will tell you a story about Revelation space.
This is my second reread of Revelation Space, and I am still impressed as I was during my first time (see below). But I have just recently read Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, so I need to make some comparisons (cough, Hamilton sucks).
I just love Alastair Reynolds - he is my go-to for some excellent hard sci-fi/ space operas, and after spending my summer with Hamilton, I was gladly rushing back to the cold chimeric hug of Alastair genius. He reminded me why I love sci-fi. It contains whole new worlds full of interesting characters, inventions and adventure. And compared to Hamilton's slow story dribbling, the story in Revelation Space flows like a lovely river of blood pumped full of nanomachines.
It also contains politics, a thing which I hated most in the Commonwealth series, but here the politics is a brutal and tense stand-off between members of Triumvirat. It is interesting, essential for the story and keeps the reader involved (cough, not like Commonwealth's old people squabble).
Most of the main characters behave like psychopaths, but this is also entrenched in the story. For example, Sylvester is not only an obsessed megalomaniac; he is a possed, obsessed megalomaniac, and Sajaki is a psychopath for a reason, after his involvement with Pattern jugglers.
Most of the questions are answered, and there are not too many plot holes (cough, unlike Commonwealth), so there is no reason to skip this. If you like dark sci-fi full of action and good scientific explanations, go and read it right now!
This is my second reread of Revelation Space, and I am still impressed as I was during my first time (see below). But I have just recently read Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, so I need to make some comparisons (cough, Hamilton sucks).
I just love Alastair Reynolds - he is my go-to for some excellent hard sci-fi/ space operas, and after spending my summer with Hamilton, I was gladly rushing back to the cold chimeric hug of Alastair genius. He reminded me why I love sci-fi. It contains whole new worlds full of interesting characters, inventions and adventure. And compared to Hamilton's slow story dribbling, the story in Revelation Space flows like a lovely river of blood pumped full of nanomachines.
It also contains politics, a thing which I hated most in the Commonwealth series, but here the politics is a brutal and tense stand-off between members of Triumvirat. It is interesting, essential for the story and keeps the reader involved (cough, not like Commonwealth's old people squabble).
Most of the main characters behave like psychopaths, but this is also entrenched in the story. For example, Sylvester is not only an obsessed megalomaniac; he is a possed, obsessed megalomaniac, and Sajaki is a psychopath for a reason, after his involvement with Pattern jugglers.
Most of the questions are answered, and there are not too many plot holes (cough, unlike Commonwealth), so there is no reason to skip this. If you like dark sci-fi full of action and good scientific explanations, go and read it right now!