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Alastair
Reynold’s Revelation Space is a
brilliant first novel. The story’s
central figure, archeologist Dan Sylveste, has spent decades researching the
Amarantin. The Amarantin were a
civilization on the verge of spaceflight when their sun flared up and wiped out
their entire race. The Event, as it is
referred to by Amarantin researchers, was deemed little more than a cosmic
hiccup. Sylveste believes otherwise, and
is devoted to discovering what really brought about the end of Amarantin
civilization. What follows is a story of
truly epic scope and presumably dire consequences for humanity in the sequel
novels.
