Michael is a red dwarf star in the back-end of nowhere in the Galaxy. Inhibitor Phase starts of with an attention-grabbing scenario. So bear this in mind for any criticism that follows as it is his own fault that he has set the bar so high! So you can take it as read that all the reviewers on the SF² Concatenation team, including myself, who have reviewed the man's stories, rate him very highly. 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.
Ranging from the depths of space to the deeps of Pattern Juggler waters, from nervous, isolated communities to the ruins of empire, this is a stealthy space opera from an author at the top of his game.Review of Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds Fiction Reviews Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.Īnd she knows far more about Miguel than she's letting on. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas.
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