December 31, 2012

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

The novel “Revelation Space” by Alastair Reynolds was published for the first time in 2000. Dan Sylveste is an archaeologist obsessed with the mystery of the Amarantin, a civilization that lived on the planet Resurgam that disappeared after a mysterious catastrophe about 900,000 years ago. A new discovery shows that the Amarantin were much more advanced than Sylveste and his colleagues thought but the colony of Resurgam goes through divisions and coups. To carry out his research, Sylveste must first survive the assassination attempts.