Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. It's rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like "revelation" and "redemption." Reynolds pulls it off. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. As they extend themselves outward, they also have a chance to gain more understanding of themselves as human beings and more ability to interact meaningfully. The novel forces readers to process an outrageous amount of information-but that's only fair, since the characters are challenged to do the same.
One Conjoiner warrior, the centuries-old Clavain, rebels against this heartless tactic, but he must negotiate with a fragmented, distrustful mob of possible allies while pursued by his former cohorts.
The Conjoiners don't believe they can fight this new foe, so they intend to run away and let the Inhibitors wipe out the other human tribes. Unfortunately, the Conjoiners' space exploration has attracted the notice of an ancient swarm of machines that calls itself the Inhibitors and that exists to destroy all biological intelligence. Late in the 26th century, the group-mind Conjoiners are defeating their main rivals, the Demarchists. Spreading from star to star, humanity has split into different, competing factions. (2001), British author Reynolds confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement.With this complex, thoughtful sequel to his highly praised Revelation Space I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making.
I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel.
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