![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reynolds has set a few stand-alone novels in the Revelation Space universe, but this one is set in time after Absolution Gap (2003), third of a trilogy, and after eighteen years extends the Inhibitor story-line to a fourth book. They achieve this by exterminating civilizations as they emerge into the interstellar arena. The Inhibitors are a galaxy-wide post-organic distributed machine race whose goal is to confine intelligent life to individual planets, in order to enable life-preserving interventions during a crisis 3 billion years in the future when the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda Galaxy. In spite of his declared intention that this be a stand-alone novel, this novel does fit into the shared universe and story-line of Alastair Reynolds’ larger body of work – known as Revelation Space. ![]() Due to sufficient time spent without that foreknowledge, I began to identify with Miguel, and so was taken along on his ride through several wild life-transitions. His situation is well developed before he and the reader begin to learn the truth. The first-person protagonist, Miguel de Ruyter, has a past which is not known to anyone in his current life, including himself. Some do it by acceptance, some by forgetting.” In Alastair Reynolds’ new novel Inhibitor Phase, this is also true of individual characters. “ All civilizations move to an accommodation of their past atrocities. ![]()
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