The novel begins in the year 2605, where Skade has been tasked with investigating a Conjoiner ship that has returned to the Conjoiner headquarters, the Mother Nest. The novel takes place around the planets Yellowstone and Resurgam, in two story lines which converge near the climax of the novel. It continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories ' Great Wall of Mars' and ' Glacial'. Be on the lookout for more work by Reynolds - he will become a fixture in the sci-fi novel world.Redemption Ark is a 2002 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe. Consider this a recommendation: read this book if you have an appreciation of science fiction of the highest caliber. Redemption Ark is well-written and imminently readable. However, Alastair Reynolds took a predictable story line and shook it up, populated it with creative characters, and leads readers on a merry chase to an unpredictable and satisfying conclusion. With the premise of 'something’s coming to destroy the world hey hey and only one man will stand and fight to save it,' this novel could easily have become just a rehash of tired old pap. The settings are well described - readers feel as if they are indeed five centuries in the future. The characters are fully fleshed out, and their dialogue is realistic.

The plot is well woven and stays on course. There is plenty of action and suspense throughout the book. Yet another problem is that these particular weapons have their own ideas about how they should be utilized.

Unfortunately, there are others who want the weapons for less than altruistic purposes.

There is only one man brave enough or stupid enough to try to find them: Clavain. Their purpose is to find intelligent life and destroy it.įacing annihilation, humanity’s one hope is the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons.

It is fifty years later, and the alien killing machines are on the way. As usual, though, that is a double-edged sword, because humanity's advances have managed to inadvertently trigger the Inhibitors. Redemption Ark takes place toward the end of the twenty-sixth century-and surprisingly mankind has managed to keep advancing. All the acclaim stems from the fact that Reynolds has an amazingĪbility to blend artful characterization with inventive science fact and fiction and throw in enough humanity and humor to make it fascinating. Redemption Ark is another brilliant effort by Alastair Reynolds, who has previously wowed the science fiction world with his award-winning books Revelation Space and Chasm City.

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