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Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.

Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defences: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire rest-mass of the galaxy." Now an intuition he doesn't understand makes him explore the dead world Resurgam, whose birdlike natives long ago tripped some booby-trap that made their own sun erupt in a deadly flare.

Meanwhile, the vast, decaying lightship Nostalgia for Infinity is coming for Sylveste, whose dead father (in AI simulation) could perhaps help the Captain, frozen near absolute zero yet still suffering monstrous transformation by nanotech plague. Most of Infinity's tiny crew have hidden agendas--Khouri the reluctant contract-assassin believes she must kill Sylveste to save humanity--and there are two bodiless stowaways, one no longer human and one never human. Shocking truths emerge from bluff, betrayal and ingenious lies.

The trail leads to a neutron star where an orbiting alien construct has defences to challenge the Infinity's planet-wrecking superweapons.

At the heart of this artefact, the final revelations detonate--most satisfyingly. Dense with information and incident, this longish novel has no surplus fat and seems almost too short. A sparkling SF debut. --David Langford



From Publishers Weekly

This distant-past/far-future, hard sci-fi tour de force probes a galaxy-wide enigma: why does spacefaring humanity encounter so few remnants of intelligent life? Excavating the 900,000-year-old Amarantin civilization on its home world, Resurgam, archaeologist Dan Sylveste discovers evidence of a splinter cult that abandoned Resurgam for the stars but returned, only to be swallowed up by a mysterious cataclysm that destroyed all the Amarantins. Aboard the Nostalgia for Infinity, a vast light-hugger ship in interstellar space, the ominous Triumvirate of cyborg starfarers seeks Sylveste to heal its captain, afflicted by the deadly Melding Plague, which turns once-humans into their own semisentient spaceships. In Chasm City on the slum-ridden world of Yellowstone, assassin Ana Khouri joins the Nostalgia's crew intent on killing Sylveste. Clearly intoxicated by cutting-edge scientific research in bioengineering, space physics, cybernetics Reynolds spins a ravishingly inventive tale of intrigue. Hard SF addicts will applaud the author's talent for creating convincing alien beings and the often uneasy merging of human and machine intelligence, depicted here as nearly too frighteningly real for comfort. Others, however, may find these human-cybernetic hybrid characters chilling, dispassionate (except for their built-in drives toward revenge and murder) and foreboding. Reynolds's vision of a future dominated by artificial intelligence trembles with the ultimate cold of the dark between the stars.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent concepts, enjoyable story, Jui 13 2004
Par Daniel Roy "triseult" (Shanghai, China) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Revelation Space (Paperback)
I was highly pleased when I finished reading 'Revelation Space' - not blown away, but very happy I took the time to read through this.

Many reviewers pointed out flat characters and a messy storyline. Maybe I've read more than my share of bad SF, but I found it was the case on neither account. The characters of Sylveste, Pascale, Khouri and Volyova can never truly be assigned a stereotype, and they sometimes acted in irrational ways that I found perfectly consistent with their backgrounds. The story does take time to evolve, but when it does, it poses a clever and interesting enigma that is satisfactorly unravelled at the end.

Storytelling-wise, this is not an earth-shattering novel; but it's a fine yarn. It reminded me of Clark's 'Rendezvous with Rama', in that much of the suspense and interest of the story lies in a mysterious alien artifact. This artifact generates a genuine sense of wonder and satisfaction at the originality of the concept.

Throughout the novel, Reynolds has sewn incredible concepts of far-future technology. These are too numerous to recount, but the descriptions of the strange life aboard the ship Nostalgia for Infinity was very satisfying in a 'Golden Age of SF' sense. Also of great interest are the (rare) aliens that populate Reynolds' universe: their evolution, motives and forms are quite refreshing and truly alien.

It might be a mistake to pick up this book hoping for a strong character-driven story. The characters are stronger than most SF novels, but they DO act in ways that further the plot instead of making absolute sense. But if you're interested in a genuinely original take on the future of mankind, as well as a thought-provoking reflection on life in the Universe, you could do much worse than pick up this book.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Very uneven, though entertaining, Aoû 26 2003
This review is from: Revelation Space (Paperback)
I am conflicted by this book. On the one hand, Reynolds brilliantly imagines far-future human societies (like the genetically modified space-faring Ultras), giant, intelligent spaceships (like the miles-long Nostalgia For Infinity, partially taken over by a virus that feeds on computers), ancient alien races, and all the necessary technology to make these believable. In the hands of a better writer, the components - the content - of this book would be downright incredible.
However, Reynolds is not a good writer. His characters exist merely to move the story forward. I don't think any of the main three could seriously be called "heroes". It doesn't matter to me that they're all working against each other at certain times, but none of them ever seems real enough. Sylveste is a slightly egomaniacal scientist obsessed with uncovering the mystery of the disappearance of a race of aliens thousands of years ago. Ana Khouri is a mercenary hired by a mysterious stranger to kill Sylveste. Volyova is the commander (sort of) of a giant starship (mentioned above) that is also searching for Sylveste, because she needs his help. Beyond that, they are interchangeable. Only their motivations differ - they speak in the exact same voice, and their actions are hardly distinctive. You wouldn't recognize these characters if you happened to meet them anywhere else; they're just plot devices, and that is incredibly irritating.
The book takes about 200 pages too much in getting its plot worked out. It's very long, and I'm not sure how much of that length is really essential to the whole. Reynolds spends a lot of time with flashbacks - not important ones, just brief ones to tell you what a character was doing ten minutes before he/she was doing something else. Utterly superfluous. Another problem is his consistent use of passive sentences - even when there was intense action going on, it didn't feel intense. Instead of writing "Khouri walked down the hall", Reynolds writes "Khouri WAS walking down the hall." The overuse of the passive voice robs the story of immediacy and action.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, though on an entirely conceptual level. It was a painful chore to read (you have to make it to the last few pages before he explains the specifics of his plot), and I don't think I'll bother with the sequels.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointed, Mars 11 2004
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This review is from: Revelation Space (Paperback)
I was excited after reading the positive reviews for this book, and after reading the first few pages. But by page 150 I realized that I no longer cared what happened next. The characters are incredibly dull and one-dimensional. I also was frustrated by the fact that there seemed to be no logic in what the author chose to describe at length, versus what was hardly described at all. Relatively unimportant objects where described in detail, while more important objects were hardly described or explained at all. Skip this one.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Are the other reviewers on drugs?
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Amazing!
I had never read Alastair Reynolds before. This book is a true wonder of science fiction, but it also stands very well on its own simply as a novel. Read more
Publié le Janv. 2 2006 par Aldo Ferrante

1.0étoiles sur 5 For Bulwer-Lytton fans only
This is appallingly written. Some gems:

"Fire burned in their minds too, but this was the unquenchable fire of being."

"'Assassination tools! Read more

Publié le Juil 18 2004

5.0étoiles sur 5 amazing and absorbing
I take issue with those who say that Reynolds can't write or is unimaginative. It's amazing writing, and one of the most creative books I've read in some time. Read more
Publié le Mai 1 2004

1.0étoiles sur 5 disappointingly uncreative and poorly written
I really, really wanted to like it. I love hard sci fi, and Reynolds is a PhD. And I love time-spanning past/future space yarns. Read more
Publié le Mars 21 2004 par scott_moss

5.0étoiles sur 5 Wheels within wheels within wheels...
This story is great, detailed, complex and a wonderful first book by ANY standards. The author's novel reminds me of works from such greats, such as Frank Herbert, Steven Brust... Read more
Publié le Mars 15 2004 par Michael Valdivielso

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the finest space operas ever written
Alastair Reynold's "Revelation Space" is an engrossing, thoughtful space opera which is as splendidly conceived, and as nearly as well written as Dan Simmons'... Read more
Publié le Mars 3 2004 par John Kwok

3.0étoiles sur 5 Started very well, but lost momentum
The first three hundred pages of this book are excellent and feature some brilliant narrative descriptions. Read more
Publié le Déc 26 2003 par M. Packham

4.0étoiles sur 5 Smart and readable first novel.
I had some difficulty getting into the book because of the time-shifting. But once in, I was hooked. Reynolds has a vivid imagination and a great eye for detail. Read more
Publié le Déc 24 2003 par C. Gilbert

3.0étoiles sur 5 Slow start, good ending
The author does jump around a lot in the first half of the book, and I found I disliked that a bit. However, I was interested in the story and I think it came to a satisfactory... Read more
Publié le Déc 20 2003

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