Galactic North (Revelation Space #3.5) - Alastair Reynolds 7.76   8

Locus Award nominee 2007.

Set in the Revelation Space universe – the first short story collection by "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists." (SFX)

With eight short stories and novellas – including three original to this collection – Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.

Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence – beyond its natural limits – has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down.

The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space... because who's to say that humanity won't be next?



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Release date October 2006
Details updated December 29, 2022

Revelation Space :: Series

Series contains 5 primary works and has 10 total works.

The Revelation Space universe is a fictional universe which was created by Alastair Reynolds and used as the setting for a number of his novels and stories. Its fictional history follows the human species through various conflicts from the relatively near future (roughly 2200) to approximately AD 40000 (all the novels to date are set between 2427 and 2727, although certain stories extend beyond this period). It takes its name from Revelation Space, which was the first published novel set in the universe.

The main trilogy (also known as the Inhibitor trilogy) consists of 1) Revelation Space, 2) Redemption Ark and 3) Absolution Gap, and deals with humanity coming to the attention of the inhibitors and the resultant war between them.

Related series Prefect Dreyfus Emergency

Chasm City (Revelation Space #0.5) 8.26   138
Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1) 8.38   157
Diamond Dogs (Revelation Space #1.3) 8.00   2
Turquoise Days (Revelation Space #1.4) 7.34   3
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Revelation Space #1.5) 7.76   115
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space #2) 8.52   117
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space #3) 8.40   96
Galactic North (Revelation Space #3.5) 7.76   8
Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space #4) 7.66   32

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