Redemption Ark
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Redemption Ark
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
|---|---|
| Published | 2002 |
| Pages | 608 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Alastair Reynolds’s second Inhibitor novel, where the threat introduced in Revelation Space stops being an archaeological puzzle and becomes an evacuation problem — turning on a cache of weapons nobody fully understands and on the Conjoiners, a faction whose networked collective mind is both their advantage and what makes them hard to trust. |
Redemption Ark
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier (“also worth reading”), as volume two of the Revelation Space series. Their caveat: the world-building is very strong, the characters can feel flat, and the slow-burning plots get more engaging the further in you read.
About this edition
Read after volume one; the universe’s rules about travel time and relativistic cost do most of the dramatic work.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Alastair Reynolds — the author.
- Revelation Space — volume one, which this follows directly.
- Absolution Gap — volume three.
- Chasm City · The Prefect · Elysium Fire · Machine Vendetta — the rest of the universe as the list gives it.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.