It starts with an extreme situation and doesn’t let up. Reynolds has pared down his style, introduced new characters and provided all the necessary background tightly integrated into the new story. That said, (though I’m not the best judge) I believe anyone new to this universe can read Inhibitor Phase as a stand alone adventure. I’ve been waiting a long time to get back to that universe (the Prefect novels didn’t quite get me there), and here at last in Inhibitor Phase is a book that links directly to all that future history and delves into questions I’d always been curious about. Here was a great city perched on a chasm being eaten away by a terrible plague, people called Conjoiners with shared mental experience and collective memories, hybrid races of humans, a vast decaying twisted up space ship, powerful women dominating much of the action and an elaborate history of human space exploration over many centuries.
Those intricate stories combined deep imagination with scientific care for detail about how things worked. Before then, I just didn’t take SFF seriously, but in those books suddenly my mind popped. When I started reading science fiction seriously almost 20 years ago, Alastair Reynolds and the Revelation Space novels and stories opened the world of the genre to me.
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