Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds · 2000
Hard SF space opera without faster-than-light travel. Reynolds, a working astrophysicist, builds his 2000 debut on vast distances and deep time, and his prose has a cold lyricism that suits the emptiness between stars.
The case against
Reynolds's debut sprawls across three plotlines that take four hundred pages to converge, populated by people who are all variations on cold, brilliant, and unpleasant. Sylveste treats everyone as instruments; everyone returns the favor. The dialogue clanks, the pacing lurches between glaciation and rush, and the physics is more lovingly rendered than any human in the book.
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