rs01_Revelation Space - 00.nfo
General Information
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Title.......................: Revelation Space
Author......................: Alastair Reynolds
Read By.....................: John Lee
Publisher...................: Tantor Media
Genre.......................: Science Fiction
Series Name.................: Revelation Space Trilogy
Position in Series..........: 01
Abridged....................: No
File Information
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Number of MP3s..............: 44
Total Duration..............: 14:25:00
Encoded At Bit Rate.........: 64 kbps
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Book Description
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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 defenses: "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 defenses to challenge the Infinity's planet-wrecking superweapons.-
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