Inhibitors (Revelation Space)
Inhibitors (Revelation Space) The Inhibitors are Alastair Reynolds's answer to the Fermi Paradox in the Revelation Space novels. Spoiler warning: Plot and/ ...
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Category:Revelation Space
Category:Revelation Space Revelation Space is a series of novels (and the ... 26th century and beyond. Pages in category "Revelation Space" There are 15 pages in ...
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Von Neumann probe
... this idea applied to the idea of space exploration is known as a von Neumann ... assumed our own), and not explore interstellar space. It is interesting to speculate about the ... lifeforms - either from stored embryos (see: embryo space colonization) or from stored information using molecular ... by the living inhabitants. Some proponents of space habitats suggest that planets would be entirely ... and Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey are self-replicating probes, though ...
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Absolution Gap
... Gap is a 2003 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It concludes the stories of the Revelation Space universe. Synopsis Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ... Light is in the system and that Inhibitors are catching up with these struggling dregs ... another, secretive race. In combat with the Inhibitors, the characters often refer to the ...
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Redemption Ark
... Ark is a 2002 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds ... It is the second book in the Revelation Space series. The novel was named "Best Science ... on the ship Nostalgia for Infinity in Revelation Space. In Reynolds's universe, humanity has ...
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Kardashev scale
... Empire which features in many works of space opera. These civilizations utilise energy on a ... 0.9 (10 15 W) c. 2200: Space elevators, the creation of an Ecumenopolis Type ... W to 10 26 W) (debatable) near space colonization, near space industry, Asteroid mining, Planet Mining for fuels ... Increasing levels of technology, Increasing levels of space exploration, space based energy sources increase, ...
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Sky's Edge
... Cygni system and appears in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. In the Revelation Space universe, Sky's Edge is the only ... Sky's Edge was destroyed by the Inhibitors. Sky's Edge is described as ...
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Lighthugger
Lighthugger Lighthuggers are spacecraft from the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. They are ships ... the Conjoined and other elements fighting the Inhibitors. These ships are far more advanced than ...
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Category:Fictional species
... Hill-troll Hobbit Hodag Houyhnhnm Humanoid I Inhibitors (Revelation Space) J Jabberwocky Jackalope Jaguar shark K Kaiju ...
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