Revelation Space

Revelation Space is the first science fiction novel in the Revelation Space series by author Alastair Reynolds. Something is destroying the Amarantin civilization, they discover space flight. Scientist Dan Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. The killer will pursue him when Amarantin has discovered many dangerous secrets.

Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book.

Review 1: Revelation Space audiobook by cmthomas

Challenging noir space opera bursting with ideas

Revelation Space has three main characters one of Russian decent, one of French and one Indian, with many Japanese characters figuring prominently, and the narrator portrays each one with the appropriate accent. The perspective of the novel shifts between these characters liberally within each chapter. Further, future tech flies fast and furious with explanations dispersed (sometimes) over several chapters. Taken together these factors make for a challenging read, but the fast-paced intricate and mind-bending ride is incredibly rewarding. The Revelation Space universe is proof that Reynolds’ space operas are equal to the likes of M. John Harrison’s or Iain M. Banks’.

Review 2: Revelation Space audiobook by Eoin

Defeated

This book defeated me, I am ashamed to say. I do most of my audio listening whilst driving, but this requires you too pay too much attention, and thus, while driving you lose important plot points, for two reasons:

1) There is a lot of tech within the book, and diluted time due to near-light speed travel on ships, and there is a lot of scene-shifting within chapters, which leads me to…

2) Other reviewers have alluded to it already, but it was a bad move not to have some sort of pause or audio-cue when scene-shifting between chapters. What happens is that John Lee (whose other stuff is ok, in my opinion), moves between scenes without taking a breath and you completely lose where you are whilst driving.

Shame I have to give it up, it’s supposed to be a classic series. But them’s the breaks.

Review 3: Revelation Space audiobook by Cyndi Lou from Kalamazoo

The narrator ruins the book

It started out ok, but eventually I just could not hear the last words in a sentence. Not every sentence, but enough to where I’d have to back up 30 seconds and turn the volume up. Just to understand the word. At which point the first word in a sentence was painfully loud. I want my money back

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