![]() True, there have been other providers of excellent SF but few have had the staying power of Reynolds. It has to be said that Alastair Reynolds shoots stonkingly solid and stupendous SF and he has done it for now ( 2022) getting on for something like a quarter of a century. There are also orbiting O'Neill type settlements and the occasional alien. Some worlds have been settled: some hospitable, others less so. It is a few centuries into the future and humanity has spread out – mainly a hundred or so light years – into the stars in an Einstein relativity way, sub light. So, newcomers to 'Revelation Space' should just consider it a setting for the novel and not something in itself (even if this setting does have a substantive pedigree). ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the author has written this as a standalone and so newcomers to 'Revelation Space' can start here if they want: though they may be better served beginning with the novel Revelation Space itself or another standalone novel in the sequence that, other than setting, has less of connection with earlier works, such as The Prefect or Chasm City, even if many features in the sequence are referenced. This is the latest in Alastair Reynolds 'Revelation Space' sequence, the last being Elysium Fire (2018) which in turn was his first 'Revelation Space' novel for roughly a decade. Review of Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds Fiction Reviews ![]()
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