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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100441009425

ISBN-139780441009428

eBay Product ID (ePID)2197187

Product Key Features

Book TitleRevelation Space

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / General, Fantasy / Epic

Publication Year2002

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorAlastair Reynolds

Book SeriesRevelation Space Ser.

FormatUk- a Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"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." --Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days "A striking first novel. Revelation Space delivers the goods. Certain to be one of the year's most impressive debut novels, and one of the most significant large-scale epics of the year. Reynolds is the next writer to watch in the resurrection of the conceptually intelligent space opera." --Gary Wolfe, Locus "Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel." --Aboriginal SF "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. Watch for it at awards time." --Jonathan Strahan, Locus, "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." -- Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days "A striking first novel. Revelation Space delivers the goods. Certain to be one of the year's most impressive debut novels, and one of the most significant large-scale epics of the year. Reynolds is the next writer to watch in the resurrection of the conceptually intelligent space opera." -- Gary Wolfe, Locus "Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel." -- Aboriginal SF "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. Watch for it at awards time." -- Jonathan Strahan, Locus, "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." — Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days "A striking first novel. Revelation Space delivers the goods. Certain to be one of the year''s most impressive debut novels, and one of the most significant large-scale epics of the year. Reynolds is the next writer to watch in the resurrection of the conceptually intelligent space opera." — Gary Wolfe, Locus "Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel." — Aboriginal SF "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. Watch for it at awards time." — Jonathan Strahan, Locus, "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." —Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days "A striking first novel. Revelation Space delivers the goods. Certain to be one of the year's most impressive debut novels, and one of the most significant large-scale epics of the year. Reynolds is the next writer to watch in the resurrection of the conceptually intelligent space opera." —Gary Wolfe, Locus "Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel." —Aboriginal SF "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. Watch for it at awards time." —Jonathan Strahan, Locus, "Intensely compelling; darkly intell&igent; 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." -- Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days "A striking first novel. Revelation Space delivers the goods. Certain to be one of the year's most impressive debut novels, and one of the most significant large-scale epics of the year. Reynolds is the next writer to watch in the resurrection of the conceptually intelligent space opera." -- Gary Wolfe, Locus "Complicated, and very clever and well-written...a spectacular first novel." -- Aboriginal SF "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. Watch for it at awards time." -- Jonathan Strahan, Locus, 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

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal823.914

Grade ToUP

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThe highly-acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe--a debut that has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself... "[A] TOUR DE FORCE...RAVISHINGLY INVENTIVE."-- Publishers Weekly Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason--and if that reason is uncovered, the universe--and reality itself--could be irrevocably altered..., The highly-acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe--a debut that has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself... " A] TOUR DE FORCE...RAVISHINGLY INVENTIVE."-- Publishers Weekly Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason--and if that reason is uncovered, the universe--and reality itself--could be irrevocably altered...