false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171150278m/89190.jpg 89190 14 Late in the twenty-sixth century. The human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons - and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes - and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether... 3024029 2002 Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, Book 3) total:670|5:169|4:323|3:156|2:17|1:5| 670 2644 897 54 3 2 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 10:16:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 20:36:31 -0800 2009
Reynolds has a great imagination and is extremely thoughtful. This is fantastic hard sci-fi told on an epic scale. Well, almost hard sci-fi, he flirts (needlessly)...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:35:57 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:36:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 08:08:20 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 08:29:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 10 02:21:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 02:36:45 -0700 2009 Revelation Space and continues on in Reynold's signature space opera style with a hard sci-fi edge. This is a good book that could have been great but for weird editing decisions in some places and an apparent lack of editing in others.

Chief among these is the build-up on seve...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 03 13:33:05 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 13:33:35 -0700 2009
Human activities have attracted the attention of the Inhibitors, alien machines whose mission seems to be the elimination of all inte...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 05 17:25:49 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 17:49:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Dec 09 12:45:53 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:43:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:57:33 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 07:02:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 12:34:04 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 06:01:41 -0700 2008 Revelation Space and I had forgotten just how great Reynolds' dark vision of space opera is. As my friend Vladimir said before: Lovecraft in space!

My only hesitation on giving this 5 stars was an annoying plot shortcut Reynolds used not once, but twice....more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 22:10:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 22:12:14 -0700 2008 This is a continuation of the story that was begun in revelation space and chasm city. The inhibtiors/wolfs (a machine race that removes any species that it determines has become to advanced.) were awakened by a scientist trying to determine why a advanced alien race had just vanished mi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Aug 03 12:56:02 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:38:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 09:13:42 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 09:29:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:23:40 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 08:29:03 -0700 2009
I don't necessarily LIKE Reynolds vision of the future, but it's a relative...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:59:54 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 10:01:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 17 14:53:16 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 22:18:27 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 14:53:16 -0700 2009 Frankly. I couldn't even finnish thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 13 19:59:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 20:02:55 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 10 09:10:51 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:12:24 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 13:01:59 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 13:04:23 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 11 12:02:45 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:12:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 05:56:19 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 19:39:46 -0700 2008
But it's a long, hard slog. The characters are all doomed in the old sense of being unable to save themselves from their destinies. The har...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89190