Cultures are allowed to fester, letting the meanest, most conniving, and richest to gain a near unbreakable stranglehold while solutions to previous problems become irrelevant in the time lag. Every system is separated by time and distance, where history happens when you travel between worlds. It feels like an extrapolated nightmare from the world we live in today (though it was written in the early 2000s). He uses the “throw the reader in the deep end” approach and lets the overwhelming amount of context give meaning to the words he has created. Part of this is due to Reynolds’ incredible worldbuilding. I didn’t quite start to like them, but Reynolds gave me a front seat to their obsessive madness and I couldn’t look away. I was engrossed in the petty conflicts of these easily despised people. It’s a bleak world, full of competition and ruthless snakes disguised as people. Oh, and they also delighted in selling weapons to planet dwellers, fueling decades if not centuries of war just because. The characters are self-serving monsters, worlds are unforgiving capitalist hellscapes separated by lightyears, with the ferry-folk being cyborgs who have cut themselves off from humanity through the wonders of relativity. One of the things I had read countless times about Revelation Space was just how incredibly mean it was, especially the main cast. Her status has become so legendary that a woman known only as the Mademoiselle has contracted her to kill Sylveste and stop him from unleashing something truly terrible on the universe. Meanwhile, Khouri is a famous assassin who tracks down rich immortals who pay to outrun her. Unfortunately, his planet is in rebellion, and they don’t exactly like his style of leadership, and depose him as he is on the brink of a major discovery.
He alone may have the drive to discover what happened to the Amarantin civilization nine-hundred thousand years ago. But this year I said “no longer shall you wait for my eyes” and I picked up this now genre staple, allowing myself to be amazed.ĭan Sylveste is a man possessed.
But since I purchased it when I didn’t understand how to handle my to-read list, my paperback copy languished on my shelf, hidden behind the other books I had accrued over the years. I purchased his debut novel, Revelation Space, years ago as a gift to myself. Long has Alastair Reynolds taunted me from my bookshelf.
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