Revenger
by Alastair Reynolds · first published 2016
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"The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them ... Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded with layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so s
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…Alastair Reynolds, and then everybody else. When I read "Revelation Space" it was, er, a Revelation. In addition to the many books R.S. universe (spanning across great swaths of time) there is also the fun Revenger series, and several non-canonical short stores, etc. Of course, Ian Banks (RIP) is also great fun.
on “Science Fiction Books I’ve Read (2018)” ↗I like it. I especially like that Alastair Reynolds anticipated it in "Revenger". Presumably the idea here is to store energy during the day and then return some of it during the night via glow-worm biochemistry. In "Revenger" they actually use growing plants as a kind of electric…
on “Engineers create plants that glow” ↗…a good book and then it ends and I can't stay in the world any longer. I find that very frustrating. Alastair Reynolds is one of my favorite authors, and he wrote a book set in a new setting called "Revenger" that was just amazing, and I loved the world. But I finished the book and there are no more and it bums me out :/
on “I have forgotten how to read” ↗Alastair Reynolds' "Revenger" (2016) is great. I'll not try to summarise it, my take may not be useful, but it's absolutely brilliant world-building (system building?).
on “Ask HN: Recent sci-fi recommendations” ↗Revenger / Shadow Captain / Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds. It's (IMHO) very well suited to a series adaptation.
on “Four book adaptations we want instead of more Lord of the Rings movies” ↗Humanity's Fire by Michael Cobley Lightspeed Trilogy by Ken MacLeod Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (the first book started off quite well, but the other two became a boring slog) Rise of the Jain by Neal Asher. This one is just so egregiously bad, I don't know how I managed to…
on “The cultural decline of literary fiction” ↗> Alastair Reynolds is just amazing to me. His earlier stuff, definitely yes (eg The Inhibitor series). His more recent works (eg Revenger series) is pretty average if not outright bad. I'm on the third book of the Revenger series now, and it's just... crap. :( If you haven't read it yet, avoid it. Major foundation sections of the third…
on “Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index” ↗