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reviewed Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, #1)

Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (Paperback, 2002, Orion Publishing Group) 4 stars

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin.

For the humans now settling …

Review of 'Revelation space' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I really liked this.

But I can't help comparing it to Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, which had more verbose world building, and many more parallel plot lines which converged in the end, and a lot more Chekov's guns(maybe used in other books of the universe).

Revelation space was darker, the plot was tighter, and it had a a bit of an edge on the science over Commonwealth saga.