Prior to Eversion I wrote Inhibitor Phase, a novel in the Revelation Space universe, which came out in 2021. Reynolds explores this question in a pretty epic manner - this is the first book in a series of four (all of which are pretty damn good). Khouri observed its movement via a subtle change in the refractive index of the air, the way a ripple in shallow water caused the rocks below to acquire a momentary fluidity of their own.Īpparently, this weapon was one of the weakest on the ship. Novels Alastair Reynolds Novels My most recent novel is Eversion, published in the UK and USA in the summer of 2022. A near-circular shockwave was racing from the site of the attack. In windows which opened fleetingly in the curdling dark storm, Khouri observed dancing tendrils of lightning, their bright ignitions strobing the landscape for hundreds of kilometres around. But it was still hurtingly bright, darkening less through its own cooling than because it was being progressively shrouded by titanic veils of uplifted planetary debris.

It was darkening now, like a hot needle just pulled from a brazier. There was - where previously there had been nothing - a tiny red-hot smear near the edge of Resurgam's northern polar cap, like a foul rat's eye in the crust of the world. With relativistic speeds in play, sections on lighthugger spacecraft and on planetary surfaces don’t seem to be taking place at the same rate. Things get off to a weak start with the first few chapters jumping backwards and forwards in time.

For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-pocked world called Michaelmas. Sadly, Reynolds’ most famous work Revelation Space is another misfire. In Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space, the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity used a kinetic energy weapon to destroy the northern pole of a planet A stellar new science fiction adventure from the author who redefined space opera, set in his bestselling Revelation Space universe.

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