Galactic North (Revelation Space #6) ★★★★½

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Title: Galactic North
Series: Revelation Space #6
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Rating: 4.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 356
Format: Digital Edition

Synopsis:

A collection of 8 short stories and novellas set in Reynolds Revelation Space universe. Many of them focus on the Conjoiners and we get several stories that provide history about several of the Conjoiner characters we've read about in previous books.

There is also a story about the Green Light that is mentioned in an earlier book and while we don't see how humanity overcomes that, we do see how it gets started.

One of the stories gives a tip 'o the hat to the novella Diamond Dogs. That story was much closer to a horror story and it meshed with the tone of Diamond Dogs perfectly.

My Thoughts:

Man, another winner of a book. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I'd already read one or two of these stories in Reynold's Best Of... Collection but they were just as good upon a re-read.

I did enjoy the variation in length of story from novella down to a short story. It helped with the flow of the book and never made me feel like I was slogging. I also liked finding out the history and future of several characters we have already met in previous books. Reading this was a nice “rounding out” experience.

By this time, if one has read this far into Reynold's Revelation Space universe, nothing here is going to deter one from continuing. Not even referencing one's self in the third person. That being said, I think there is only one more book for me to read and then I'll have to go track down his other works and figure out what order to read them.

★★★★½

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