There, they join forces with Lady Arek, her right hand the Hyperpig Pinky, and her band of survivors. Glass, as the survivor calls herself, blackmails Ruyter into following her to her ship, and they take off for Yellowstone, which in the past has been the center of human spacefaring civilization, and now is a graveyard with a few pockets of life that descended into a post-apocalyptic tribal society.
The survivor, however, turns out to be from a different ship, and she came to collect him to help her in the quest to stop the Inhibitors. In an accident that saves his conscience, the ship blows up before he has the chance to do so himself, but there is a single survivor, whom Ruyter helps. One such group of people is led by Miguel de Ruyter, who is about to defend his colony from an incoming ship, which could reveal the colony to the Inhibitors. Small pockets of humans are clinging to survival on inhospitable planets, hiding from the Wolves, as they call the Inhibitor machines. The characters are almost likeable, and the story seamlessly merges the intimate with an expansive setting.ĭuring the years since the last book, the Inhibitors, a race of sentient machines designed to eliminate all intelligent races, has decimated humanity. Most importantly, however, this book shows how much Reynolds grew as a writer over this century. With new and some very old characters, Inhibitor Phase can be read as a standalone book, but old fans of the series will find enough familiar elements to trigger bouts of nostalgia.
Ranging from the depths of space to the deeps of Pattern Juggler waters, from nervous, isolated communities to the ruins of empire, this is a stealthy space opera from an author at the top of his game.Nearly two decades after the last novel from the main Revelation Space storyline, Reynolds returns with a book that’s even more expansive and bleak than the ones before.
Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.Īnd she knows far more about Miguel than she's letting on. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas.
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