Redemption Ark - Softcover

Alastair Reynolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575073845 ISBN 13: 9780575073845

Publisher: Gollancz Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed! Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race ...and awakened the Inhibitors. 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. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. This is British SF at its absolute best.

About this title

About the Author

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. The first three books in his loosely linked series, Revelation Space, nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and the British Science Fiction awards, Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Award, and Redemprion Ark, are all Gollancz bestsellers.

Review

This is Alastair Reynold's third book with us and the interest in Al has definitely increased. He is definitely becoming a name and authority on the SF circle and will soon pose a major threat to Peter F Hamilton and Iain Banks. Interviews: An extensive interview with THE ZONE website. OTTAKAR'S have always been really supportive of Al and this year they are featuring an interview with him on their website. The WATERSTONE'S genre magazine ENIGMA again featured an interview with Al. Short interview with a review in DREAMWATCH. An interview is due to run in the September issue of STARBURST, it will be between Stephen Baxter and Al. SIGNINGS/EVENTSSignings and events were organised for publication with with Forbidden Planet, Andromeda, Waterstone's Deansgate andHammicks Redhill. Stock signings in key London bookshops. Reviews: ''Alastair Reynolds occupies the same frenzied imaginative space as Philip K Dick or AE Van Vogt: that he occupies it as a working sceintist is what makes this book so exciting.'THE GUARDIAN '... a welcome return to the universe of Reynolds' astonishing Revelation Space... it takes a lot more than insider knowledge to create a work as incandescent as this.'STARLOG 'A terrific and well-executed sequel to Revelation Space.'DREAMWATCH 'This is a work of sustained hard SF genius.'STARBURST 'As dark and daring as anything penned by Iain M Banks orPeter F Hamilton. Fabulous.'SFX 'Redemptnio Ark is an unparalleled space opera of epic, mind-blowing proportions.'SOUTH WALES EVENING POST Reviews have also appeared in South Buck Burnham & Iver Express and the Windsor & Et

Edition details

• Publisher: Gollancz Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0575073845
• ISBN 13: 9780575073845
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 656