Victor Hugo Kebbe
I’m still seriously thinking about this book. The reading was clearly a long journey, brightened with several very impressive ideas. Perhaps this is the great merit of Revelation Space, that of bringing an almost infinite succession of impressive ideas in stunning and richly detailed and imaginative scenarios. If I keep thinking about the book, even after it’s finished, I think it’s a quality to be noticed.
However, the book is also marked by the author’s truncated writing. For me it was clear that Reynolds likes to “show and not tell”, which seems like an interesting idea (and very overvalued these days). However, Speculative Fiction books (such as Fantasy and Science Fiction) still depend a little on a more traditional approach, just when the book brings so many innovative ideas. For many and over again I saw myself rereading some excerpts and wondering if I had lost something in the middle of the way (which is not a compliment).
Some readers complained that the author is long-winded and that the book could be smaller in relation to the number of pages. I don’t consider this a problem, because it was a very slow construction of the journey (and that’s ok, if you do it right). However, the author could have been a little clearer and more direct in presenting the ideas, but I understand that it is a matter of style.
I’m still seriously thinking about this book. The reading was clearly a long journey, brightened with several very impressive ideas. Perhaps this is the great merit of Revelation Space, that of bringing an almost infinite succession of impressive ideas in stunning and richly detailed and imaginative scenarios. If I keep thinking about the book, even after it’s finished, I think it’s a quality to be noticed.
However, the book is also marked by the author’s truncated writing. For me it was clear that Reynolds likes to “show and not tell”, which seems like an interesting idea (and very overvalued these days). However, Speculative Fiction books (such as Fantasy and Science Fiction) still depend a little on a more traditional approach, just when the book brings so many innovative ideas. For many and over again I saw myself rereading some excerpts and wondering if I had lost something in the middle of the way (which is not a compliment).
Some readers complained that the author is long-winded and that the book could be smaller in relation to the number of pages. I don’t consider this a problem, because it was a very slow construction of the journey (and that’s ok, if you do it right). However, the author could have been a little clearer and more direct in presenting the ideas, but I understand that it is a matter of style.