Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

by Alastair Reynolds

Russian, nauseate.

Such an outcome had seemed unacceptable—but as always, no outcome was unacceptable if you looked at it the right way.

the trouble with simulations is that they put up with far too much shit.”

But the confusion slowly gave way to the realisation that her way was the right one; that it was right to treat his past as shattered mosaic of interchangeable events; an acrostic embedded with numerous equally legitimate interpretations.