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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Revelation Space
		Revelation Space is a 2000 hard science fiction space opera novel by author Alastair Reynolds.
		Revelation indicates it as "about half an hour", because it is effected by the shifting of the calendar over a period of two thousand years.
		Revelation lays much accent on the last 144 years 1860 to 2004, which is the last "half-day" of the "seven days" and divides this time span into 6 "hours" of 24 years.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Revelation-Space (1006 words)

	Revelation Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Revelation Space is a 2000 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.
		On the planet Resurgam, archæologist and scion of House Sylveste, Dan Sylveste, is engaged in an archæological dig, researching a species known as the Amarantin and cause of their apparent mass extinction, dubbed "the Event".
		Plus, the ship is carrying a cache of 40 "Hell class" weapons that the crew found in a deserted area of space, and which are capable of some very nasty things, such as possibly causing stars to go nova, or annihilating entire planets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revelation_Space (451 words)

	'Space Station': PBS Documentary Brings Home Both Vision And Tension
		Space Station provides a glimpse at how important the sequence of launches were to both the Americans and the Russians.
		Space Station returns closer to home to expose yet another source of conflict and tension over the construction of the ISS -- the agitated relationship between NASA and Boeing, hired as the station's primary contractor of the ISS.
		Space Station shows the Boeing engineering team, videotaped during a meeting, deciding that a minor software glitch may affect computers' ability to boot up, but it is not important enough to change.
	www.space.com /spaceimagined/tv/pbs_iss_991227.html (1036 words)

	Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space - an infinity plus review
		Revelation Space bears out this expectation admirably, although a little inconsistency in the pacing -- sometimes lingering for dumps of explanation, sometimes rushing breathlessly -- suggests the author hasn't yet fully made the transition.
		Revelation Space is strong where Reynolds' scientific background -- by day he's an astrophysicist with the European Space Agency -- bursts through in the novel's sweeping speculation, the breathtaking construction of his fictional stage and the awesome artefacts that form the pivots of the hard-science-fictional plot.
		Towards the end, in particular, some of the big revelations about what is really going on are delivered in pages-long data-dumps, robbing them of their drama.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/revspace.htm (840 words)

	"How Near Armageddon": Q & A
		A correlation of almost the entire Revelation could be made with the history of the Christian church, world-wide, from the time of the birth of Jesus Christ to the year 2000.
		Revelation also indicates a time span of 6 years in the last 144 years, which is a "month".
		Revelation, chapter 14, from which the verse in this QandA question is taken, is going to illustrate that chapter 14 may have direct bearing on the year 2000.
	www.how-near-armageddon.org /html/qas/answer7.html (3768 words)

	Christian Media Daily by James Lloyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The "short space" that characterizes the tenure of the present Secretary-General (Kofi Annan is the seventh), is synonymous with the period of time in which the "raiser of taxes" that is described in Daniel 11 stays in power.
		We've previously synchronized this event with the passage in Revelation where four of the seven trumpets have sounded, and an angel is flying through the midst of heaven proclaiming with a loud voice "Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth...." (Revelation 8:13).
		Thus, when Revelation tells us the seventh head's reign is to continue "a short space," the subtle implication found in the language indicates he has very few options available to him with which he may attempt to perform the functions that are required of him.
	www.christianmediadaily.com /cmcurrents092105.html (780 words)

	Alastair Reynolds interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Revelation Space (2000), Reynolds' vast first novel, is the first of several volumes projected to expand that future history into an extended epic; more obliquely, Chasm City (2001) continues this task.
		Revelation Space, much anticipated and deservedly so, is a Gothic space opera which turns something of apparently academic curiosity -- the mysterious extinction of an alien species a million years ago -- into the basis of a desperate quest for meaning and survival by the ill-assorted crew of a monstrous plague-infested starship.
		NG: Accompanying Revelation Space's atmosphere of inefficiency and decay is a sense of technological Gothicism: machines and artefacts are haunted, cyborgs are tormented or possessed by their own implants.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intar.htm (5357 words)

	Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		'Revelation Space' is set a very relativistic universe, where the rules are the rules, and they're the rules we all know.
		In fact, darkness is a theme running through 'Revelation Space', which, though it deals with major SF themes, often has the feel of a monsterific horror novel.
		'Revelation Space' more than lives up to its title: not only in the revelations within the novel itself, but most importantly in the revelation of Alastair Reynolds as a major writer who starts literally light years beyond any readers' expectations.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/reynolds-revelation_space.htm (636 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Revelation Space / Alastair Reynolds
		But in the case of Revelation Space, two and three years later I still could remember the opening scene in the archaeological dig on the lonely planet of Resurgam with remarkable clarity.
		Tied into all of this is an even more bizarre enigma, that of the unspeakably alien Shrouders, who maintain areas of distorted spacetime — the Revelation Space of the title — which are rumored to protect vast repositories of wildly advanced technologies.
		Revelation Space leaves plenty open for its sequel, too, but it doesn't do so in such a way that it's a letdown in its own right.
	www.sfreviews.net /revelationspace_b.html (1543 words)

	dragonsworn [feature] - Alastair Reynolds
		'Revelation Space' and it's attendant novels are breath of fresh air into the science fiction genre, and we thought it'd be a good idea to sit down and pick Mr.
		The way that happened was I had finished 'Revelation Space' and was trying to sell it.
		I think by the time I'd written 'Chasm City' and sold 'Revelation Space' I had a bit of distance from it, and saw how I might go back and continue that story.
	www.dragonsworn.com /features/alastairreynolds/interview.html (1014 words)

	Alastair Reynolds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His first four novels and several of his previous short stories take place within one consistent future universe, usually now called the Revelation Space universe after the first novel published in it, although it was originally developed in short stories for several years before the first novel.
		The Revelation Space storyline includes stories set over a span of several centuries, spanning approximately 2050 to 2700.
		Interstellar travel exists in the universe in the form of propulsion systems that can exert an arbitrarily high force without requiring propellant mass (faster-than-light travel is possible, but comes with such terrible consequences that no party, human or alien, uses it) ; and that extraterrestrial sentience exists but is elusive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alastair_Reynolds (641 words)

	A New Breed of Space Opera
		Space opera, that wonderful genre of rip-roaring adventuring among the stars, was established in the 1920s by E. "Doc" Smith, one of the founders of modern science fiction, and this continued during the Golden Age of Science Fiction (the late 1930s and early 40s).
		The space ships are like 20th century ocean-going ships; the different alien races are like different earth nations, religions, and races; the interstellar battles are just exaggerated versions of WW II.
		by suggesting that singularity events can only occur in regions of space distant from the main disc of the galaxy, and he freely admits this was done as a way of avoiding the implications of the technological Singularity (a concept he himself presented to the world).
	www.orionsarm.com /intro/space_opera.html (1782 words)

	www.myspace.com/revelationdoom
		REVELATION proceeded to record their fourth demo, "Illusion of Progress", which added a new dimension to their style and gained them label interest.
		REVELATION appeared on the Doom Metal sampler "Dark Passages" which led to a recording deal with Rise Above Records (owned by Lee Dorrian, of Cathedral/Napalm Death fame).
		The style of REVELATION combines the crushing heaviness of Black Sabbath and Trouble with the experimental nature of Rush and Voivod, mixed with other various personal influences, to create their own unique metal sound.
	www.myspace.com /revelationdoom (1091 words)

	Revelation of Spatial Relationships
		Since each view is locked into a predefined axis, the overall sense of space builds slowly over the course of the film.
		In this way, initially fragmented space is incrementally homogenized, until one should have a sense of any set's layout by the end of the film.
		Hou's gradual revelation of space, the variation from view to view as the camera is placed at different points along its axes, and the concomitant play of graphic forms serve to unify the film structurally while maintaining a quality of indeterminacy and fragmentation that contributes to the film's dialogical properties.
	cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/srev.html (268 words)

	Letters \| SCI FI Weekly
		Clute seems to have found Revelation Space to be that straw and it apparently came down upon his back like a ton of bricks.
		In this case, the subgenre is space opera, where the glut is so severe that it threatens to sweep away the entire SF ghetto in the chain bookstores.
		The reviewer fatigue warning alarms sound off early when Clute mentions two common assumptions of the space opera subgenre--faster-than-light travel and the ansible (that is, FTL communication)--and faults the novelist for not basing his novel upon these assumptions.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/letters/show.php?id=5571 (621 words)

	Alibris: Revelation
		Revelation Unveiled, previously released under a different title, is a readable commentary on the Book of Revelation that includes charts and diagrams for the layman, Bible teacher, and pastor.
		Peterson's eloquent meditation on the Revelation of St. John engages the imagination and awakens the intellect to the vitality and relevance of the last words on scripture, Christ, church, worship, evil, prayer, witness, politics, judgment, salvation, and heaven.
		In this expository survey of Revelation, Warren Wiersbe clearly illustrates that prophecy is practical.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Revelation (1168 words)

	Alastair Reynolds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I wanted Revelation Space to have a sense that the size of the universe was not something to be skirted around, but which was an unavoidable fact of life that would actually shape the plot I was also concerned to think about the plausibility of having any kind of intelligent aliens.
		Brimming with vast ideas, Revelation Space, sets a whole new standard of SF writing, with sentient oceans, intelligent neutron stars and a plot that uses the immensity of space.
		`Revelation Space is an impressive first novel, and quite possibly the space opera of 2000.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/alastairreynolds1.html (602 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John
		The main argument is that Revelation and imperial cult institutions were in direct contradiction regarding cosmology and eschatology.
		Revelation, on the other hand, denigrated all temporal authority and focused attention on the throne of God in heaven and the eschatological inauguration of the New Jerusalem.
		In this way, the author of Revelation produced one of humanity's great religious critiques of hegemony, a critique that attempted to establish and maintain a just community in the face of imperial oppression.
	oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/religion/0195131533/toc.html (234 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Both operas and space operas are absurd when described realistically; and both make sense only when they lunge and lurch after the sublime.
		The problem with Revelation Space is that Alastair Reynolds does not seem to have spent any calories actually trying to make his bigthinks about the sublime actually work.
		Which means (unless the author is a lot more technically sophisticated than Reynolds has yet become) that the text of a tale like Revelation Space sinks under the weight of long sequences whose only function is to color in the process of getting to the beginning of the real story.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue153/excess.html (1027 words)

	SF Signal: REVIEW: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
		Being a space opera, there was a lot of changing loyalties, secrets, ulterior motives, manipulations, etc so it was sometimes hard to get a line on their true motivations.
		Fortunately, again being space opera, it included lots of cool plot twists, surprises and revelations, which is what draws me to the sub genre.
		Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds' first novel, is also first in a four-book sequence that is followed by Chasm City, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/000664.html (682 words)

	Alastair Reynolds CV at PFD
		REVELATION SPACE was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA awards.
		A further adventure in the uniquely dark and dangerous universe of REVELATION SPACE and a plot that sees the return of the Inhibitors and gives full rein to Reynolds' trademark sentient super-weapons.
		Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a young woman in his care was blown away during an attack by a vengeful young postmortal.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/reynolal/b-aut.html (260 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Revelation Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The biggest problem with Revelation Space as a science fiction novel, though, is that it fails to create a world larger than itself.
		The result is that although many of the ideas in Revelation Space are awe-inspiring, the book never gives us the feeling that we are discovering a whole new world, the way that great science fiction novels like Dune, Neuromancer, or A Fire Upon the Deep do.
		Revelation Space is, after all, a first novel and I have no doubt that in later books Alastair Reynolds' writing and technique will grow to match the scope of his imagination.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/rs80.htm (583 words)

	Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		'Revelation Space' was in fact a revelation, a huge first novel that set the scene and had a fully satisfying story.
		'Chasm City' used the backdrop created in 'Revelation Space' as the setting for a complex noir mystery, but didn't provide any resolution to many of the problems raised in 'Revelation Space'.
		The events of 'Revelation Space' have tipped the balance that had existed, and now the Conjoiners are looking to take control of Nostalgia for Infinity.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/reynolds-redemption_ark.htm (971 words)

	culture data repository \| Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
		Revelation SpaceÂ’s grand space opera has led to suitable comparisons with other hard SF exponents such as Peter F Hamilton and Stephen Baxter and these are well-founded.
		Revelation Space is full of interweaving threads which gradually reveal the complex backstories of the three main protagonists.
		The three are initially separated by time and space and their inevitable drawing together is dragged out over half of the book, due to ReynoldsÂ’s refusal to implement faster-than-light travel.
	www.culturelist.org /cdr/article.cfm?id=370 (519 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Revelation Space (Gollancz SF): Books: Alastair Reynolds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defences: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire rest-mass of the galaxy".
		Revelation Space revolves around the destruction of an alien species a million years before.
		The gigantic titles of “Redemption Arc”, “Revelation Space”, “Absolution Gap” are, for the first time, well spent on a published work of fiction.
	amazon.co.uk /Revelation-Space-Gollancz-Alastair-Reynolds/dp/1857987489 (2472 words)

	Bewildering Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With Revelation Space, I had to force myself back to the book.
		Reynolds has been compared to Arthur C. Clarke, Iain Banks, and even Greg Bear, and Revelation Space borrows a lot of the feel from each of these authors, and others.
		I haven't read Chasm City yet, which is set in the same nearly empty universe of Revelation Space, but I will, I will.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue6/revspace.html (377 words)

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