In this universe, extraterrestrial sentience exists but is elusive, and interstellar travel is primarily undertaken by a class of vessel called a lighthugger which only approaches the speed of light Most of Reynolds's novels contain multiple storylines that originally appear to be completely unrelated, but merge later in the story.įive of his novels and several of his short stories take place within one consistent future universe, usually now called the Revelation Space universe after the first novel published in it, although it was originally developed in short stories for several years before the first novel. Reynolds has said he prefers to keep the science in his books to what he personally believes will be possible, and he does not believe faster-than-light travel will ever be possible, but that he adopts science he believes will be impossible when it is necessary for the story. Reynolds' works reflect his professional expertise with physics and astronomy, included by extrapolating future technologies in terms that are consistent, for the most part, with current science. A number of his other novels and stories have been shortlisted for the BSFA and Clarke awards.
His second novel, Chasm City (2001), won the BSFA award in 2002. Reynolds's first published novel was Revelation Space (2000), which was shortlisted for the BSFA and Arthur C Clarke awards. In 1995 his story ”Byrd Land Six” was published, which he says marked the beginning of a more serious phase of writing. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space. In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. Reynolds wrote his first short stories in 1990, while still a graduate student. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions.
Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life – and then to suppress it. The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed!
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