They soon discover that Cerberus is actually a massive beacon aimed at alerting a machine sentience of the appearance of new star-faring cultures so that it can destroy them. He then agrees to attempt to cure their captain in exchange for a trip to Cerberus, a mysterious nearby planet orbiting a neutron star that he believes holds the secret to the truth of Amarantin civilisation. Once aboard, however, Sylveste informs the triumvirs that he has antimatter bombs hidden inside the implants in his artificial eyes that could destroy the Nostalgia for Infinity. Desperate to secure Sylveste's expertise to help cure her captain, Volyova and the other two members of the ship's ruling triumvirate (Sajaki and Hegazi) threaten the defenceless Resurgam civilisation, prompting its rulers to turn Sylveste over to them. The Nostalgia for Infinity arrives in orbit around Resurgam in 2566. With help from the Mademoiselle, Khouri infiltrates the crew of the Nostalgia for Infinity as it reaches orbit around Yellowstone, knowing that they will then travel to Resurgam. Khouri is hired by a mysterious figure known as the Mademoiselle to assassinate Sylveste. The third strand focuses on Ana Khouri, an assassin living on the planet Yellowstone (in the Epsilon Eridani system). Volyova and the other members of her skeleton crew wish to find Sylveste because they believe he can help them with their captain, who has been infected with the Melding Plague, a nanotech virus that attacks human cells and machine implants to pervert them into grotesque combinations. The next strand centres around Ilia Volyova aboard the Nostalgia for Infinity, a large ship capable of interstellar travel. Over the course of decades, Sylveste learns that the Amarantin may have become technologically sophisticated before their sun destroyed life on the planet Resurgam nearly a million years prior. Sylveste is an archaeologist excavating the remains of the long-dead Amarantin race that lived on a planet in the Delta Pavonis system. The first strand centres around Dan Sylveste, beginning in the year 2551. This plot structure is characteristic of many of Reynolds's works. Revelation Space begins with three seemingly unrelated narrative strands that merge as the novel progresses. It was short listed for the 2000 BSFA and Arthur C.
The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency. It was the first novel (but not first published work of fiction) set in Reynolds's eponymous universe.
Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.
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