Revelation Space: Volume 1

Alastair Reynolds

Jan 2009 · Revelation Space Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by John Lee

About this audiobook

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason. And if that reason is uncovered, the universe-and reality itself-could be irrevocably altered.

Ratings and reviews

Great book, starts of a bit slow and some aspects aren't fully explained when introduced but you grow to understand the different aspects by how they're described. Wholeheartedly recommended for anyone that likes sci-fi.

If you dislike faked accents used to differentiate characters, you'll be terribly frustrated by this recording.

some cool ideas in here but the book was probably twice as long as it needed to be to convey them

About the author

Born in Barry, South Wales, Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time. He is the author of many short stories and twelve novels, including Chasm City, winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and House of Suns.

John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. An AudioFile Golden Voice narrator, he is the winner of numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards.