Name: Redemption Ark
Rating: 4.241379310344827 (29 reviews)
ISBN: 9780441011735

Alastair Reynolds

Accidentally triggering the Inhibitors, alien killing machines designed to seek out and destroy all intelligent life, all humankind in the twenty-sixth century faces certain annihilation, unless a secret cache of doomsday weapons can be found and recovered. Reprint.

Redemption Ark

cory malnarick

A great sequel to an already excellent science fiction novel, I could not put it down. Weaving intriguing plot; complex, emotional, human characters; and contemporary experimental physics, Reynolds makes you feel like you were born in the wrong millennium. He makes the future terrifying and curious - machines whose subpersonae induce an experience inspired by the pure terror of sleep paralysis as a defense mechanism against illicit tampering, and skull modifications to assist in the brain cooling needed after the rapid heat generation of nanomachine assisted hyperspeed thought, Reynolds shows you the edges of reality, passion, and fear during an epic, interesting saga.

I'd say the first book is better, but that could have simply been bias influenced by my surprise reaction to such a fresh perspective on science fiction. Please don't misunderstand - this book does NOT hold back from bringing in new explorations into the limits of science and the possibilities of human being, so if that's what you're hoping for, pick it up.

I felt that about 4/5 into the story, it slowed down a bit, but the last of it got me amped to read part 3.

The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed! Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race ... and awakened the Inhibitors. On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. This is British SF at its absolute best.

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rex chekal

In the second book of The Inhibitor Trilogy, Alastair Reynolds pushes the boundaries of science fiction and "confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance" (Publishers Weekly). Late in the twenty-sixth 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 . . .

Redemption Ark

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