The fifth book in the Revelation Space series, and it’s a rather good one too.
So far, book by book, we’re being slowly introduced to the various factions of the Universe and how things work. This time it’s time to be introduced to the space ship engines: the C-drives that are made and supplied by the Conjoiners and are completely sealed and non user serviceable.
Fans of Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya stories will soon guess what the Conjoiners have done and enjoy this story just as much as they did Aliette’s stories.
This story also introduces us to the Ultras. The Ultras are the ones who crew these ships that get as close to light-speed as possible, living a very different life to normal people with many synthetically augmented body parts.
This book is available in the collections, Galactic North and Beyond the Aquila Rift.
Next up, it’s Aurora Rising.
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