Inhibitor Phase
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4.3 • 90 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past.
Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything ... utterly. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.
Only something goes wrong.
There's a lone survivor.
And she knows far more about Miguel than she's letting on . . .
Ranging from the depths of space to the deeps of Pattern Juggler waters, from nervous, isolated communities to the ruins of empire, this is a stealthy space opera from an author at the top of his game.
Praise for Al Reynolds' Revenger
'A swashbuckling thriller' The Guardian
'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' The Sun
'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights and properly scary hazards' The Daily Telegraph
'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A human ship passing through the Michaelmas system threatens to draw Inhibitors, a ruthless alien threat, to the hidden community of Sun Hollow in this uneven standalone adventure set in Reynolds's Revelation Space universe (last visited in Chasm City). Miguel de Ruyter, Sun Hollow's leader, sets out to destroy the ship before it can draw unwanted attention to the area. Reynolds's precise, poetic prose provides elegant characterization of his desperate hero as Miguel's plan goes awry and one of the ship's passengers, Glass, survives. Glass reveals that she's come to Sun Hollow purposefully to recruit Miguel for a dangerous mission. Threads of well-layered intrigue spiderweb throughout, occasionally linking to events and characters from previous Revelation Space novels in ways that will delight existing fans without being overly confusing to newcomers. However, some of the science presented as fact makes the fiction implausible after Glass coerces Miguel into accompanying her to the ruins of the Yellowstone system in search of an arcane object with the potential to turn the tide in the fight against the Inhibitors. Suspension of disbelief becomes difficult with the introduction of hyperpigs and contrived technological problems on the way to an underwhelming close. This will best be enjoyed by Reynolds's diehard fans.
Customer Reviews
Great stuff
Another story set in the Chasm City universe, and which progresses the storyline onwards. The book ends on something of a cliff hanger. If you know Alastair Reynolds’s work you won’t be disappointed. “Proper science fiction!”
Not the whole book?
There were only 92 pages, what happened to the rest of the book?
More please
Yes this was fantastic but was rushed at the end wrapping up the story before it was told. We never got to see how the inhibitors where dealt with and how humanity bounces back or what happens to the ship etc all too rushed and felt like the author was fed up with the whole story line at the end