She is an ultranaut on the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity, one of the great spaceships that travel between the inhabited systems in the galaxy at speeds slightly below the speed of light.
He seems to have made quite a few enemies along the way and some of them are now hunting for him. Imprisonment is not the problem Sylvestere face either. They stage a successful coup and Sylvestre spends much of the next decade in prison. After decades on the inhospitable planet there are those who want to terraform the planet and give up the search for the Amarantin secrets. Unfortunately for Sylvestre not everybody agrees with him. Sylvestre is dead set on finding out what caused their extinction, in fact, he believes that such knowledge is necessary to ensure the survival of humanity. They were destroyed in what archaeologists now call “the event”, a cataclysm that took place almost a million years ago. Resurgam was once home to the Amarantin, a species that appeared to be on the brink of archiving space flight. One man who is interested in this apparent lack of intelligent life is archaeologist Dan Sylvestre, leader of an expedition to the now lifeless planet of Resurgam. Despite scientific theories that claim the opposite, they find the galaxy relatively empty of intelligent life, apart from the remains of societies that were destroyed ages ago. Set in the 26th century mankind has escaped the solar system and settled many planets. Not light reading but once you get into the story definitely rewarding. Not surprisingly Revelation Space is hard science fiction on a grand scale. I understand the author was still working at the European Space Agency when he wrote this novel, before giving up his job to pursue a full time writing career. Not that the book is flawless but there is a lot of potential here. It’s also the first book I have read by this author and I must say I am impressed. The first book of the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds and his début novel. This review was written in July 2008, I've done some minor polishing but it is mostly in original shape. It's a bit odd to have only the last book in a trilogy on the blog so I moved the first part today and will probably move the second part sometime in the near future.
I started this blog with a review of Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds. I did not quite have enough reading time to finish a second book this week so I've salvaged another older review again.
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