A review by pigsflew
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

4.0

This wasn't the first book I read of the Revelation Space sequence--I started with Redemption Ark, the third of the series. The thing that struck me as I was going through this novel was just how much thought Reynolds put into his vision of the future, how many things he seemed to have planned for in this first book. It seems as though in his universe, nothing is meaningless; nothing forgotten. Additionally, the limitation on this space opera of the speed of light and therefore the passage of incredible gaps of time play well into the psychologies and psychoses of his characters. Revelation Space is not the best of its series, but it is an incredible introduction.