
Galactic North (2006) - A collection of short fiction set at various points in the Revelation Space future history.
Absolution Gap (2003) - The third novel of the main trilogy. Redemption Ark (2002) - The second novel of the main trilogy. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003) - A collection consisting of a pair of eponymous novellas unrelated to the main storyline, but set within the same universe. Chasm City (2001) - A prequel to Revelation Space. Revelation Space (2000) - The first novel in the main trilogy. The series, in publication order, includes: And if you like it, check out the other 2 books in the trilogy, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap.A Hard Sci-Fi Space Opera series by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, where 26th century humans have achieved advanced nanotechnology and slower-than-light interstellar travel and find themselves needing to discover why all the other intelligent species they find evidence of seem to have gone mysteriously extinct. Banks’s Culture novels, give Revelation Space a try. Hamilton’s The Night’s Dawn trilogy, or Iain M. If you’ve enjoyed other space opera series such as Frank Herbert’s Dune, Peter F. But who would want to kill Sylveste for trying to solve a million-year-old mystery, and why?
An assassin also stalks him among the stars. The crew of Nostalgia for Infinity are not the only people in pursuit of Sylvester, however. He agrees, in exchange for a trip to Cerberus, where he believes he will find the answer to the mystery of the destruction of the Amarantin. The crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity track Sylveste down on Resurgam, in hopes that he can cure their captain of a deadly nanotech virus. In the year 2551, archaeologist Dan Sylveste becomes obsessed with discovering the reason for their destruction. Nearly a million years ago, the Amarantin civilization on the planet Resurgam was destroyed, just before becoming capable of space flight. When you hear “science fiction”, do you think of ray guns and characters with pointy ears? Then you should take a look at the debut space opera novel by Welsh astrophysicist Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space. Reviewed by Bob, Collection Development Librarian