Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Aug 29, 2008 Stephen rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, audiobook, award-nominee-arthur-c-clarke, award-nominee-locus, multiple-award-nominee, 2000-2005

4.5 stars. I really struggled with whether to give this a 4 or 5 star rating. On the 5 star side (or even the 6 star side as I give those books I think are truly special) the ideas, concepts, technology, world-building (or better stated, galactic civilization building) and descriptions of the various factions of humanity are amazingly original and incredibly entertaining. Put simply, there are a lot of "WOW" moments where I said "this guy is brilliant."

Also on the level of a 5 star novel is the ...more

28 likes · Like · see review

Oct 25, 2012 Susanne rated it really liked it

Shelves: sff

Ohhhh, this is fabulous. The world-building is staggering (we're looking at a fantastical yet plausible history of the universe over a few BILLION years here), the plot is a page-turner, the concepts, the aliens, the tech, the science, the physical augmentation, etc., etc. ... everything worked really, really well for me. This is space opera. ACE.

A word on the science: I'm a champion at willingly suspending my disbelief, so I really don't mind convoluted physics explaining super-light speeds and ...more

3 likes · Like · see review

Feb 15, 2011 Hali rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, space-opera, aliens, alastair-reynolds, cyborg

This is a second read of Alastair Reynolds first novel and as much as I was hoping to like it the second time around there was something really lacking in the book, and not just the improbable and cliff hanger ending. Daniel Sylveste is the only person alive to come back from the Shroud, and the only person to come back with their personality and brain intact. He is searching for answers to why a civilization on the planet Resgum just ceased to exist after a planet wide cataclysm called the Even ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Mar 06, 2015 Eoghann Irving rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

GoodReads recommendation engine has been suggesting Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space to me for a couple of years now and it's not hard to see why, after all it's epic scaled science fiction written by a British author, and that is kind of my thing. Well it finally made it to the top of my to read pile and I'm glad it did. While it starts slow by the end it's gripping stuff.

So What's It All About?

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was o ...more

Like · see review