Customer Reviews
Brilliant - By: F. Franklin, 04 Feb 2008 
Most of these reviews seem pretty long so I'll keep it brief.
An excellent book, lots of interesting ideas constantly weaved through it, Reynolds clearly has the love & of science & sense of how cool science can be that a sci-fi writer reallly needs to make maths & science cool.
Can sometimes be a little slow but usuallly makes up for it very quickly.
Likable characters of standard sci-fi fare but much better realized & more polished than usual.
Brilliant ending that tackles big issues & takes your breath away with its sheer magnitude.
Not a book for the faint heated, it demands a lot from you but is still accessible for technophobes & math haters & will give big rewards to those willing to make an effort.
Don't be scared give it a go, any minor flaws it may have will be overwhelmed by its beauty as a whole, like an impressionist painting, its about the big picture.
Class of its own. (Iain M Banks an exception) - By: Night Writer, 22 Dec 2007 I picked up a copy of Absolution Gap in a charity shop & it spent around 6 months languishing on the shelf while I read what I thought were better books.
Once opened though I spent the first 3 hours reading the next on Amazon buying alll his other works. This & others pure class.
The only other author I get as excited about when a new book is on the way is Iain M Banks (Sci-fi & others). If you like this try his as well.
Absolutely Fantastic - By: S. Gorton, 26 Nov 2007 I absolutely loved Revelation Space - best book I have read in ages - & I also enjoyed the other books in the series, including the short story collections.
Keep up the good work, Alastair!
A good read - By: lmhh, 19 Sep 2007 
Revelation Space was recommended to me by a colleague who watches the same types of TV reads some similar books etc & I enjoyed it. The interlinked stories had enough complexity to keep me interested & the ideas are grounded enough to make sense taking human nature into account. It isn't a great work of literature, but the writing is good enough to alllow the story to flow & I like kick ass women so having Khouri & Volyova centre stage who can both think & fire a big gun worked for me.
Good enough for me to have ordered the other parts of the trilogy, & Chasm City as follow up reads.
interesting ideas but poorly written - By: wookie, 18 Jun 2007 
Perhaps I'd been spoiled by reading China Mieville & Iain M Banks before this, but I found the dialogue & character development to be very poor, the plot chronology confusingly explained (especiallly initiallly) & the general atmosphere & scene descriptions to be dull & uninspired. After a few hundred pages I was still waiting to be grabbed by the story but persevered, in fact it was probably a good 2/3 of the way through before I actuallly started to care about any of the characters, & then only in the most passing sense & it was only reallly a curiosity of where alll this meandering was going that kept me reading. It's not that it's a bad tale & there are some nice ideas in there, but it's reallly poorly written & lacking in any warmth. Overalll, pretty disappointing. I picked this up on the cheap along with the more recent 'Century Rain' - I'll give that a bash to see if the author has improved over time, but my hopes are not high.
