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Revelation Space is a 2000 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel set in the universe which became known as the Revelation Space universe, although the then-unnamed universe had already been established by several published short stories. Image File history File links Cover shot of Alastair Reynoldss Revelation Space, from Amazon. ...
Alastair Reynolds (born in 1966 in Barry, South Wales) is a Welsh science fiction author. ...
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Hard science fiction, or hard SF, is a subgenre of science fiction characterized by a particular emphasis on scientific detail and/or accuracy; in soft science fiction this interest is more muted, even non-existent. ...
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Redemption Ark is a 2002 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. ...
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Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. ...
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Alastair Reynolds (born in 1966 in Barry, South Wales) is a Welsh science fiction author. ...
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Revelation Space was followed in publication by Chasm City, a stand-alone novel which was set earlier in the universe's timeline but wasn't strictly a prequel. Chasm City was followed by Redemption Ark, which was a direct sequel both to Revelation Space and Chasm City. Chasm City is a science fiction book by author Alastair Reynolds. ...
Redemption Ark is a 2002 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. ...
In the book, the term "Revelation Space" refers to the interior of a Shroud, a nearly impenetrable artificial sphere of distorted spacetime (page 98).
Plot summary
On the planet Resurgam, archaeologist and scion of House Sylveste, Dan Sylveste, is engaged in an archaeological dig, researching a species known as the Amarantin and cause of their apparent mass extinction, dubbed "the Event". He has to face several political problems on the colony, including a power struggle between the archaeologists and those interested in terraforming the planet to make it more comfortable. This July 2007 does not cite any references or sources. ...
An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) is a period in time when a large number of species die out. ...
Artists conception of a terraformed Mars in three stages of development. ...
Meanwhile, aboard the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity, Triumvir Ilia Volyova — an Ultranaut — is having problems both with her new Gunnery Officer, who has just gone insane, and with the Captain John Brannigan, who is infected with the Melding Plague. Plus, the ship is carrying a cache of 40 "Hell class" weapons that the crew found in a deserted area of space, and which are capable of some very nasty things, such as possibly causing stars to go nova, or annihilating entire planets. Lighthuggers are spacecraft from the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. ...
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The Melding Plague is an alien nanotech virus in the Revelation Space series. ...
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And on Yellowstone, in Chasm City, ex-soldier Ana Khouri from Sky's Edge, separated and sent here away from her husband thanks to a clerical error, works as an assassin for Shadowplay, an organization that lets the wealthy take out contracts on themselves, so they can brag about the experience should they survive. Chasm City is a science fiction book by author Alastair Reynolds. ...
Skys Edge is a fictional planet located in the 61 Cygni system and appears in Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space universe. ...
On the lighthugger, Triumvir Ilia ends up killing crazed Gunnery Officer Nagorny, and disguises his death as an accident when his reefersleep casket malfunctioned. They are heading to Yellowstone to look for Dan Sylveste, who being able to channel a beta-level simulation of his dead father Calvin Sylveste, is the only person with enough medical and technological expertise to have a chance at curing the Captain. Unfortunately, they are too late, and Dan had left for Resurgam decades earlier. While they are there, they decide to look for a new Gunnery Officer.
Ana Khouri is kidnapped by the mysterious Mademoiselle and given a mission to terminate Dan Sylveste, for an as-yet unstated reason. When the crew of the Nostalgia for Infinity decide to head for Resurgam to look for Sylveste, Khouri is brought out of reefersleep and from there she manages to infiltrate the crew, who think she believes they are going to Sky's Edge. Assassin and Assassins redirect here. ...
Cryogenics is a branch of physics (or engineering) that studies the production of very low temperatures (below –150 °C, –238 °F or 123 K) and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. ...
The rest of the story revolves around the crew having to worry about the mysterious "Sun Stealer", who also shows up on Amarantin artefacts, while journeying to Resurgam; Sylveste's adventures in between the archaeological dig and the arrival of the Nostalgia for Infinity; various recollections of Sylveste's past trips to the Shrouds and the Pattern Jugglers; and the final trip to the nearby neutron star Hades and the strange camouflaged artificial planet Cerberus that orbits it. For the Hugo Award-winning story by Larry Niven, see Neutron Star (story). ...
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Publication history As this was Alastair Reynolds's first published hardback fiction, and was published in a relatively small initial print run in the United Kingdom by Gollancz. It subsequently became one of the most collectible first editions of the decade.[citation needed] |
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