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For questions about the British author "Alastair Reynolds" specialising in dark hard science fiction and space opera. Five of his novels and several of his short stories take place within a consistent future universe, known as the "Revelation Space" universe. For questions about these see the [revelation-space] tag. Only use for questions about the author himself.

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Revelation Space - Why does Khouri have a fragment of spacecraft shrapnel in her?

Volyova at first thought the splinter was from Khouri's soldiering days, carelessly left in place by Chasm City's medics. However this strikes her as odd and she keeps it for later analysis. After a …
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In Pushing Ice how does the Lindblad artefact get there?

The cube arrived at the structure long before Janus and the Rockhopper did. It then simply sat there for a few ten/hundred million years, waiting for Bella's arrival and its discovery. To help illustr …
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Revelation Space - Why didn't the ship get trashed when Volyova put it into reverse?

If I remember correctly, the Ultra ships described in the book, and the Nostalgia for Infinity in particular did end up with all kinds of acceleration from zero to 10g (in that scene) and in at least …
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