I finished Absolution Gap today. From previous posts it will be clear that Alastair Reynolds has become one of my favorite authors. He mixes hard sci-fi with space opera, and has seemed to make it work so well together.
AG is the last book of the loosely based trilogy that started with Revelation Space and continued with Redemption Ark. And where the first two books had developed some really cool characters and sent them through some incredible stuff, AG kind of gets rid of most of them, and adds more questions at the end.
Now adding more questions at the end isn’t so much a problem. But the storyline was leading up to making contact with someone, and it eventually turned out not to be what they wanted. It made sense, but kind of trivialized the pursuit. Though let me say that Reynolds fantastic world building and storytelling are still there. It was still a good read. But there were too many things just left for naught as this book went.
It is a bit frustrating, but as I said I didn’t waste my time. Reynolds to me is still the best of the “New British Sci-Fi Authors” wave that has been sweeping the genre the last five years. And I will still buy his books in hardback.
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