It might come as a surprise, but there is no Bible or extensive set. Metaphysical debate over the primacy either of intuitively felt freedom or material determinism. The Revelation Space universe currently encompasses six novels and a cluster of short stories, of which all but Monkey Suit, Night Passage and The Last Log of the Lachrimosa are collected in the books Galactic North and Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days. Ana Khouri, an ex-soldier from Skys Edge, was accidentally placed aboard an interstellar lighthugger and brought to Chasm City. Specifically, the Revelation Space sequence is shown to function as a laboratory of sorts, a successful translation of complex processes and theories from theĬutting edge of physics (particularly the “Closed Timelike Curves” described by physicist David Deutsch) into a rich fictional tapestry that is itself underpinned by a contentious These are major characters from the various novels and stories that make up Alastair Reynoldss Revelation Space universe. It is argued that Reynolds's fiction offers readers a credible compromise between the determinism described by classical physics and the “mere randomness” implied by
This article examines Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space sequence (with a focus on the trilogy Revelation Space, RedemptionĪrk, and Absolution Gap ) as an intricate working-through of philosophical questions associated with the implications of free will andĬurrent understandings of quantum mechanics, a series of experiments conducted through the medium of fiction by a talented novelist with a background in space science andĪstrophysics.
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