Revelation Space Series

The novel reflects reynolds s professional background.

Revelation space series. Revelation space is a 2000 science fiction space opera novel by welsh author alastair reynolds. Like a number of sf works reynolds book deals with the fermi paradox the strange lack of other intelligent life in the universe or at least other intellige. He has a phd in astronomy and worked for many years for the european space agency. The revelation space universe is a fictional universe which was created by alastair reynolds and used as the setting for a number of his novels and stories.

Revelation space is space opera of the grandest style filled with high drama and soaring narrative arias. Its fictional history follows the human species through various conflicts from the relatively near future roughly 2200 to approximately ad 40000 all the novels to date are set between 2427 a. About the revelation space universe the revelation space series includes six main books three in the revelation space series two in the prefect dreyfus series and one standalone novel. In this story mankind has evolved into various conflicting factions and has established colonies on other planets all without the use of ftl faster than light travel.

Revelation space is a 2000 science fiction novel by welsh author alastair reynolds. It was the first novel set in reynolds s eponymous universe. Main series revelation space. 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.

Inhibitor phase the prefect. It was the first novel set in the revelation space universe although the then unnamed universe had already been established by several published short stories. Weather short story dilation sleep short story nightingale short story turquoise days novella.