Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds: A No-Spoiler Review

when you read fire upon the deep it is like entering a truly alien universe it is both familiar and completely new and remade with this totally bizarre unique gloss of paint on it and i just had this sense of awe reading fire upon the deep that was missing here

i hate it when there are these dangling story arcs that aren't resolved until book two or three or four or eight of the series hyperion did that which i just found infuriating

overall i thought it was a fairly competent book that had a lot of problems with it the problems were not prohibitive to reading the book it was really quickly without giving anything away too long the characters were not quite strong enough the dialogue was quite poor and the pacing was off but there were a number of story arcs that paid off gratifyingly in the same volume which is to its credit