![]() And she knows far more about Miguel than she’s letting on. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them. ![]() The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything… utterly. Fleeing the ‘wolves’ – the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors – he has protected his family and his community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. Would I enjoy this standalone, which is set in the Revelation Space world?īLURB: Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. However, I wasn’t so impressed with House of Suns, which I felt was let down by the ending. ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed his Revengers series, see my reviews of Revenger, Shadow Captain and Bone Silence. So I always pay attention when he produces something new. ![]() ![]() I devoured them years ago, awed at the inventiveness and depth of hard science packed into these stories with such a very different feel – and indeed, no one writes quite like Reynolds. Alastair Reynolds is one of the game-changers in hard sci-fi, with his amazing, bleak far-future Revelation Space. ![]()
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