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Absolution Gap
Ace, Jun 2004, 24.95, 576 pp. ISBN: 0441011586 Over two decades ago Clavain, Scorpio and refugees landed on the Pattern Juggler world of Ararat. Over time Clavain and Scorpio led the development of a thriving community. However, in the past half a year, Clavain has become increasingly reclusive and neglectful of his duties until lights in the sky proclaim that their enemy, the Inhibitors, apparently have found them. Now they must flee their ha...
Chasm City
Ace, April 2002, 23.95, 528 pp. ISBN 0441009123 In the twenty-sixth century, mankind may have conquered the stars and found the secret to immortality but it hasn't been able to eliminate war. Since humanity colonized Sky's Edge there has always been war and arm merchants like Cahuella, who sell munitions to both sides have become rich men. Tanner Mirabel, former soldier and mercenary, is now a security consultant to Cahuella. When an ambus...
Redemption Ark
Ace, Jun 2003, 24.95, 576 pp. ISBN: 044101058X Light years ago, the Inhibitors feared intelligent species and built machines to stop any from developing. These killing machines traveled the universe to destroy intelligent life. Eons later, the machines must have failed as intelligent species have arisen including humans advancing throughout the cosmos. Late in the twentieth-sixth century, the human crew of the Infinity learns why a sentient ...
Revelation Space
Reynolds has the ability to tell diverse storylines and have them come together in cohensive and gripping fashion. Dan Sylveste, a obessive scientist on the colony world of Resurgam seeks to find the answers for why the planet's original inhabitants, the Amarantins, an avian race, was wiped out eons ago. But Sylveste doesn't know it but he and his simulation of his dead, Father calvin are being sought by the cyborg crew of starship Nostalgia for Infinity...