Absolution Gap
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The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence-and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety-or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse.
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
06/29/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781400129584
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Alastair Reynolds. (2009). Absolution Gap. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds. 2009. Absolution Gap. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds, Absolution Gap. Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Alastair Reynolds. Absolution Gap. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2009.
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Starred review from May 31, 2004
The final volume in British author Reynolds's SF trilogy that began with Revelation Space
(2001) fulfills all the staggering promise of the earlier books, and then some. The world Hela, an airless moon of the gas giant Haldora, is remarkable for two things: relics of the extinct alien race called the scuttlers, and the Quaicheist faith, whose observers (aided by infection with a virus that induces religious fervor) watch Haldora in the hope of viewing one of its mysterious, split-second disappearances. Church records show the disappearances are slowly increasing in frequency and duration. Rumors abound, and arriving pilgrims confirm that Haldora's changing behavior is a sign of the end times. When his indoctrinating virus weakens on occasion, however, Quaicheist founder Horris Quaiche has other ideas—as does young iconoclast Rashmika Els, self-taught scuttler archeologist. Meanwhile, unhappy war veteran Nevil Clavain leaves self-imposed exile on the planet Ararat to help his friend, human-pig hybrid Scorpio, and rejoin the battle against the implacable Inhibitors, "wolf" machines that seek out and destroy star-faring civilizations. From a slow start, Reynolds's plot rapidly builds momentum, hurtling to a stunning conclusion. Cinematic imagery and strong characters ably carry this juggernaut of a story, with Big Ideas strewn about like pebbles on a beach. It's not the best book to introduce Reynolds to those who've never read him, but it's without a doubt a fitting finale to the series, a landmark in hard SF space opera. Roebert Kirby at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop.
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