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| | Excessive Candour |
 | | Space operas, in other words, utilize a whole array of absurdities in order to talk clearly and movingly about issues too big for realism. |
 | | The survivors (I may have this out of sync, but Revelation Space is 200,000 words long, much of it containing speculations later proven wrong) build a hollow planet around the neutron star which twins their own home star. |
 | | What they say (I attest) does not constitute a revelation (and in any case, "revelation space" is a term used in the novel to describe the inside of a red-herring galactic entity called the Shroud, which is brought stage front to help kick the backstory into action, and is afterwards forgotten). |
| www.scifi.com /sfw/issue153/excess.html (1027 words) |
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