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Absolution Gap
By Alastair ReynoldsPublisher Description
In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival.
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence -- and they've targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety -- or draw down its darkest enemy.
And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse . . .
"Absolution Gap is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." -- SF Site
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“Ok so it took me like a week but i finished the novel Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds. 832 pages acc to google reads app .
I'm not great at putting my thoughts and impressions into words so don't judge me too harshly.
ok i absolutely loved this novel.
4.75 stars out of 5
there were so many mindbending concepts in it .
Brane theory , gravitic communications , hypometric weapons , cases of solipsism so extreme that only great intensities of self inflicted pain could anchor one in reality and genus loci are just a few of the concepts explored.
Unexpectedly midway through the novel , an event occured which made me teary eyed. Wasn't expecting to feel symphathy and loss towards charecters who are all dictators or war criminals or contract killers. I thought Reynolds charecters were weak and one dimensional but I was wrong . In atleast the case of one charecter , they were very good.
Much of the story is told through the pov of an hyperpig. A pig that's been genetically modified into having human intelligence and morphology. Thier feelings of alienness and thier disadvantages compared to humans around then were great to read about.
And oh In the earlier two novels in the trilogy, the charecters just hemorrhaged exposition, everything was told , not seen but in this book that has decreased a lot and u get to see the events rather than just being told about them.
That being said , I have to subtract 0.25 stars cause the ending was very abrupt and kinda made little sense. like the concept was great . Absolute cinema but it would have made much , much more sense if the other party had did it.
Apart from that one quibble, it was absolutely amazing. I would recommend every fan of science fiction to read this trilogy. This shining beacon of hard sci-fi and space opera
Thank you”
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About Alastair Reynolds
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. he stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.
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