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Redemption Ark

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
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 Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons---and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes---and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.©2008 Alastair Reynolds (P)2009 Tantor Fiction First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera

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"Reynolds confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance." ( Publishers Weekly Starred Review)
"The best of the new breed of space opera. Wild action on a grand scale spans well-imagined and developed worlds." ( The Denver Post)
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If you like long sci fi books with insights into the future, plausible physics, some action and characters that grow on you then you will love this book. Im going to start book 4 now..

Great third book!

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Another step closer to extinction from the Inhibitors. They get closer as preparations are made to evacuate a planet and possibly the whole Conjoiner mother nest.

Fantastic follow up to Revelation Space

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This third instalment to the Revelation Space series begins to tie together some of the questions of the first to books as well as the story arks of these books. Alistair starts providing some answers, although these may not be as complex as some readers hope for. You can see in this story an inspiration from E E "Doc" Smith.

Unfortunately Lee goes back to his accented narration, with every sentence trailing off. This makes the books hard to listen to for longer periods. Lee's accents also make the mic preamp peak and introduces distortion into the narration, making the sound worse. If not for the difficulty in listening to Lee again, this book would have a five. I hope you are listening, Audible.

Reynolds continues a trend

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To say I loved it doesn't really do it justice. The story maybe long, but in a sense that helps to emphasize the fact that the story is told over a number of years.
If you have read the first two, you get to meet many old favourite characters, and not all of the ones you would expect.
And as for the narrator, if I didn't know better I would have to say their must have been more than one. The story shifts perspectives and characters rather often, but rarely do you miss cues to show that(ones that would be obvious in written word by use of paragraphs, new pages, etc).
This is becoming fast my favourite science fiction universe!

Long, but worth it!

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Why would a voice speaking in someone's head have to say their name all the time? Skaid, Skaid, Skaid.... argh!

Some annoying bits<br />

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