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Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel (but not first published work of fiction) set in Reynolds's eponymous universe . The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency . [ 1 ]
The Greenfly began to subsume most of human space, with all efforts to stop them failing, due to the Greenfly having assimilated both aspects of the Melding Plague and Inhibitor technology. The storyline of the Revelation Space universe thus far concludes with humanity leaving the Milky Way galaxy in an attempt to set up a new civilisation ...
The Prefect marked a return to the Revelation Space universe. Like Chasm City, it is a stand-alone novel within that setting. It is set prior to any of the other Revelation Space novels, though still 200 years after the original human settlement is established on the planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system. It was published in the ...
Revelation Space is a series of novels (and the title of the first novel) by Welsh hard science fiction author Alastair Reynolds, set in a human-dominated Milky Way of the 22nd century to the 26th century and beyond.
Aurora Rising (originally titled The Prefect) is a 2007 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, and takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories.
During the events in the novel Revelation Space, Volyova activates the weapons, which allows the Conjoiners in Yellowstone to determine their location.) Volyova persuades Captain Brannigan to let the people evacuate onto the ship, as an ark, that could redeem his past transgressions. In space, Clavain and Scorpio board Skade's ship to save Felka.
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After some deliberation, some fourteen thousand of the over 150,000 colonists board the ship, and it leaves. In space they meet Remontoire, who gives them Aura's technology to defend themselves. The leaders debate whether or not to go to the moon Hela (which Aura suggests they do) or Yellowstone, to help evacuate the planet.