Revelation Space

About this book

This highly acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself ... "[A] tour de force ... Ravishingly inventive." —Publishers Weekly 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 the author

Alastair Reynolds has 16 books in the store, published between 2009 and 2026, mostly in Fiction.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780316462440

Publisher

Orbit

Published

June 2, 2020

First published

January 5, 2009

Pages

560

Weight

20.8 oz

Editions

4 (Paperback · Audio CD)

Subject

Fiction