![]() ![]() REVIEW: Reynolds used to be a space scientist and that clearly shows in this book, which is absolutely crammed with all sorts of technical details to explain why the world is the way it is. And she knows far more about Miguel than she’s letting on. ![]() 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. ![]() The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything… utterly. ![]() Fleeing the ‘wolves’ – the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors – he has protected his family and his community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. Would I enjoy this standalone, which is set in the Revelation Space world?īLURB: Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. However, I wasn’t so impressed with House of Suns, which I felt was let down by the ending. I thoroughly enjoyed his Revengers series, see my reviews of Revenger, Shadow Captain and Bone Silence. So I always pay attention when he produces something new. I devoured them years ago, awed at the inventiveness and depth of hard science packed into these stories with such a very different feel – and indeed, no one writes quite like Reynolds. Alastair Reynolds is one of the game-changers in hard sci-fi, with his amazing, bleak far-future Revelation Space. ![]()
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