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For questions about the "Revelation Space" universe by Alastair Reynolds, encompassing "Revelation Space", "Chasm City", "Redemption Ark" and "Absolution Gap" as well as "The Prefect" and several short stories involving conjoiners, inhibitors, pigs, a child called Sky and the melding plague.

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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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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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