476 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2000 by Victor Gollancz.
Alastair Reynolds's critically acclaimed debut has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself.
Revelation Space ist unfassbar langweilig. Review im Blog: wolfwitte.blog/2021/12/29/alastair-reynolds-revelation-space/
It took me ages to get into this book. At the start it moves very slowly. It's chock full of ideas by the end of the book though which is something I look for in a sci-fi novel. Will definitely read this again in a few years.
Fun and expansive but I'm now convinced Reynolds has no clue how to end his ideas.
I was expecting a similar style to Reynolds' other books like Blue Remembered Earth (one of my favourites) and I found it to be very wordy. The story is interesting but coming off The Expanse books (I've read the first two so far), Revelation Space felt like a bit of a slog at times and a little too caught up in itself. I keep thinking of it as very European with somewhat drawn out dialogues where the characters seem to opt for this excessively honest, oral interaction.
