Revelation Space

Zusatztext Praise for Revelation Space “Intensely compelling; darkly intelligent; hugely ambitious.”—Paul J. McAuley! author of Ancients of Days “A terrific treat. I was hooked from page one. Billion-year-gone alien wars! killer intelligences—and perhaps the most stunning and original alien artifact in modern science fiction—and all rendered with the authentic voice of a working scientist. Ferociously intelligent and imbued with a chilling logic—it may really be like this Out There.”—National bestselling author Stephen Baxter “An inventive! wide-ranging! fascinating and exciting space adventure...The best first novel I’ve ever read since A Canticle for Lebowitz .”—Don D’Ammassa! Science Fiction Chronicle “Complicated! and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel.”— Aboriginal Science Fiction “A delight. A refreshing and entertaining reconsideration of some of the genre's oldest tropes. An impressive first novel! quite possibly the space opera of the year.”—Jonathan Strahan! Locus “Something new and exciting...absolutely first-rate.”— The Cleveland Plain Dealer “This is science fiction on a large! cosmological scale! and Reynolds does not lack in big ideas...Many of the ideas in Revelation Space are awe-inspiring...cutting-edge and convincingly rendered.”—SF Site Informationen zum Autor Alastair Reynolds is the author of the Poseidon's Children series and the Revelation Space series. Born in Barry, South Wales, he studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. Klappentext Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Amarantin civilization was annihilated just as it was on the verge of space flight. Scientist Dan Sylveste is determined to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself and he forges a deadly alliance with the cyborg crew of a spaceship. But as Sylveste closes in on a secret, a killer closes in on him. A "Locus" Best First Novel of the Year. (June) One Mantell Sector, North Nekhebet, Resurgam, Delta Pavonis system, 2551 There was a razorstorm coming in. Sylveste sood on the edge of the excavation and wondered if any of his labours would survive the night. The archeological dig was an array of deep square shafts separated by baulks of sheer-sided soil: the classical Wheeler box-grid. The shafts went down tens of metres, walled by transparent cofferdams spun from hyperdiamond. A million years of stratified geological history pressed against the sheets. But it would take only one good dustfall one good razorstorm to fill the shafts almost to the surface. "Confirmation, sir," said one of his team, emerging from the crouched form of the first crawler. The man's voice was muffled behind his breather mask. "Cuvier's just issued a severe weather advisory for the whole North Nekhebet landmass. They're advising all surface teams to return to the nearest base." "You're saying we should pack up and drive back to Mantell?" "It's going to be a hard one, sir." The man fidgeted, drawing the collar of his jacket tighter around his neck. "Shall I issue the general evacuation order?" Sylveste looked down at the excavation grid, the sides of each shaft brightly lit by the banks of floodlights arrayed around the area. Pavonis never got high enough at these latitudes to provide much useful illumination; now, sinking towards the horizon and clotted by great cauls of dust, it was little more than a rusty-red smear, hard for his eyes to focus on. Soon dust devils would come, scurrying across the Ptero Steppes like so many overwound toy gyroscopes. Then the main thrust of the storm, rising like a black anvil. "No," he said. "There's no need for us to leave. We're well sheltered here there's hardly any erosion pattering on those boulders, in case you had...

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Praise for Revelation Space

"Intensely compelling; darkly intelligent; hugely ambitious."-Paul J. McAuley, author of Ancients of Days

"A terrific treat. I was hooked from page one. Billion-year-gone alien wars, killer intelligences-and perhaps the most stunning and original alien artifact in modern science fiction-and all rendered with the authentic voice of a working scientist. Ferociously intelligent and imbued with a chilling logic-it may really be like this Out There."-National bestselling author Stephen Baxter

"An inventive, wide-ranging, fascinating and exciting space adventure...The best first novel I've ever read since A Canticle for Lebowitz."-Don D'Ammassa, Science Fiction Chronicle

"Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel."-Aboriginal Science Fiction

"A delight. A refreshing and entertaining reconsideration of some of the genre's oldest tropes. An impressive first novel, quite possibly the space opera of the year."-Jonathan Strahan, Locus

"Something new and exciting...absolutely first-rate."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"This is science fiction on a large, cosmological scale, and Reynolds does not lack in big ideas...Many of the ideas in Revelation Space are awe-inspiring...cutting-edge and convincingly rendered."-SF Site

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Reynolds
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.05.2002
• EAN: 9780441009428
• ISBN: 978-0-441-00942-8
• No. of pages: 585
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 171 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Das Amarantin-Universum; Revelation Space; Das Amarantin-Universum; Revelation Space
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy