List of Revelation Space locations
Encyclopedia
This List of Revelation Space locations lists locations appearing in the novels and stories of Alastair Reynolds
's Revelation Space universe
.
near Resurgam, orbiting as a distant twin to Delta Pavonis, which was converted into an enormous neutron computer.
orbiting the star Delta Pavonis
with buried artefacts from a now-extinct avian alien race known as the Amarantin (who later were discovered to be the ancestors of the Shrouders). It was colonised by an expedition led by Dan Sylveste to uncover the remains of this species and to shed some insight into the lack of space-faring sentience in the galaxy
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The Glitter Band was destroyed by the Melding Plague. The plague made the nanotechnology that many of the habitats relied on mutate out of human control and this subsequently caused some of the more susceptible habitats to break apart or explode. This caused a lethal chain reaction; because with each habitat that was destroyed the chances of debris hitting and destroying other habitats was greatly increased. Even if the debris did not destroy the habitats immediately, they all invariably were tainted with traces of the plague. By the time the plague had passed, only a hundred of the most heavily fortified and secure habitats remained. The place became known as the Rust Belt, because of the hundreds of dead or destroyed habitats remaining in orbit.
After the plague, the Rust Belt became more secure, as it was slowly cleaned up and decontaminated of any residual plague elements. A space-based economy eventually reasserted itself, although it never achieved its former greatness. Like all of Yellowstone, it was destroyed by the Inhibitors in 2698.
in the Yellowstone system. Antoinette Bax disposes of her father's body in its atmosphere and first meets Clavain during the act. This may correspond with the real life extrasolar planet candidate Epsilon Eridani b, which masses between 0.9 and 1.5 that of Jupiter.
. Originally settled by Americans the same way as Diadem, the colony failed in what appears to be similarly murderous manner. Re-settled by Demarchists a century later, Yellowstone is a pinnacle of human civilisation from approximately 2350 until 2510. By the time of the bulk of the Revelation Space works this planet has been devastated by the Melding Plague. As a result, the remnants of the Glitter Band are then referred to as the Rust Belt. Reynolds's 2007 novel The Prefect
is set around Yellowstone and the Glitter Band during their prime, about 100 years before the events of Chasm City
. At this point, it was the home of the Yellowstone Demarchy. Human civilisation on Yellowstone was destroyed by the Inhibitors in 2698.
Chasm City became one of humanity's greatest achievements as the Demarchists presided over a golden age known as the Belle Epoque. During this time, the city itself and the planet's orbiting habitat system (The Glitter Band) became a humanity-wide byword for opulence, luxury and success.
This all changed however, with the onset of The Melding plague. As the buildings, implants and technology that ran Chasm City were disrupted and ran amok, the city in its current state was effectively destroyed along with its golden age. Humanity survived though, falling back onto long abandoned technology such as steam power and the city stratified itself into 2 layers; The Mulch, and The Canopy.
The Mulch is a shanty town at street level where the melding plague remained rife (possibly still existent), and The Canopy being a relatively modern retreat in the topmost stratum where the rich cling to their technologically enabled lifestyle with the remnants of their nanotechnology. Chasm City, like all of Yellowstone, is wiped out by the Inhibitors in 2698.
into a computer
, making the computer a host for the mind in question. This would preserve the mind and memories, while the scanned person would be run as a simulation. The volunteers died as a result of the "brain-scanning" and many of the simulations crashed shortly after, hence a monument was built in their honour.
Europa
One of the larger moons of Jupiter
, where the Demarchists first rose to become one of humanity's most advanced societies, living in cities hanging from the bottom of the moon's icy crust, at the top of the subterranean ocean. The hanging cities of Europa were later destroyed.
Mars
The fourth planet of our own Solar system, where the Conjoiners first arise and develop their unique attributes, and where other factions led by Nevil Clavain wage war against them, and where Clavain later joins them. It is later colonised by baseline humanity.
Phobos
The nearer of Mars's moons, the interior of which the Conjoiners hollow out to use as a shipyard and source of raw material for building the first lighthugger, which they would use to escape the Solar system.
planet orbiting the star 107 Piscium, was discovered to be a mechanical connection device between the local universe and an adjacent one, which was disguised through a faltering projection system.
of Haldora. Controlled by a theocracy
which used viruses to induce religious faith. Hela is of central importance to the events of Absolution Gap
, which deal with, amongst other things, the search for the mysterious "Shadows" believed to be in the proximity of Hela and capable of defeating the inhibitors.
. A planet of the Pattern Jugglers. The refugees from the Resurgam colony and Clavain's expedition retreat to Ararat to await Remontoire.
However, as it turned out, the collapse of the colony was all part of a plan by Martin Setterholm, an American scientist who spent his life studying a species of worm that lived in the Diadem ice. During his studies he discovered that the worms that lived in the ice left chemical traces wherever they went, leading him to theorize that the planet was a sentient being, which used the worms in a similar way that the human brain uses electro-chemical impulses. Setterholm gradually poisoned the rest of the population to stop the colony from using the habitat of the worms, the ice, as fuel for the main fusion reactor. He then assumed the identity of Iverson, another colonist. However, 100 years later (after being unfrozen from a makeshift cryonic
chamber by the Conjoiners), his deception was discovered and he was brought to justice by Nevil Clavain.
. Home of the Fand "Screech Mat," an organism briefly referenced in Galactic North
.
. It is controlled by the Demarchists.
-like planet in a perpetual state of war between settler families. Home to the Hamadryads. It orbits the star 61 Cygni
. In the Revelation Space universe, Sky's Edge is the only planet to be settled by a generation ship
. The planet's history is described in the book Chasm City
. Before the invention of lighthugger ships, a flotilla of five generation ships (Santiago, Brasilia, Islamabad, Palestine and Baghdad) travelling at eight percent of light speed was deployed from Earth
to 61 Cygni, each with 150 waking crew and just over one thousand cryogenically frozen colonists (know to the crew as momios, as a Spanish
-based calque
of the word mummies
). The planet was named after Sky Haussmann, a man who caused the Santiago to overtake the other ships and arrive first at Sky's Edge by jettisoning most of the frozen passengers, and who was later crucified
for his crime. (In actuality, he had a stand-in crucified, whilst he escaped).
Upon arrival at Sky's Edge, the populations of the generation ships went to war with one another, the colonists of the Santiago settling in the South and the colonists of the two other surviving ships living in the North. During the course of the journey, Sky, as captain of the Santiago, had alienated the other two ships and hostilities eventually escalated into war when they landed. The war apparently lasted until not long before the human population of Sky's Edge was destroyed by the Inhibitors. The short story "Nightingale" takes place several decades after Chasm City
, and only few years after centuries-long war came to an end.
Sky's Edge is described as relatively backwards compared with some human worlds, as it possesses little in the way of high technology and few can afford things such as the immortality
treatments readily available elsewhere in colonised space. The war raging on Sky's Edge is the reason for this, the planet apparently exports little but a few biological products harvested from its extensive jungles due to its industries being devoted to the war and so trading ships only stop by about once a decade, usually after being snubbed by traders in more lucrative markets. The people of Sky's Edge rarely buy anything but weapons from the Ultra traders. Only Nueva Valparaiso has remained relatively unscathed by the war, because it is the site of a space elevator
which is destroyed during the events of Chasm City
; this is run by the cult of Sky Haussmann.
The ecology of Sky's Edge is superficially Earth-like, as it includes recognisable plants and animals but it is said to be metabolically incompatible with Earth flora and fauna, causing fatal anaphylactic shock in any creature or person who tries to consume it.
. It was the home of a primitive human civilization (by the standards of Revelation Space) that was almost entirely cut off from the rest of humanity. The novella Turquoise Days focuses on the fall of this civilization.
. Little is known about it, save the fact that contact with it is lost during the Human-Inhibitor war.
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland...
's Revelation Space universe
Revelation Space universe
The Revelation Space universe is a fictional universe which was created by Alastair Reynolds and used as the setting for a number of his novels and stories...
.
Hades
Formerly a typical neutron starNeutron star
A neutron star is a type of stellar remnant that can result from the gravitational collapse of a massive star during a Type II, Type Ib or Type Ic supernova event. Such stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons, which are subatomic particles without electrical charge and with a slightly larger...
near Resurgam, orbiting as a distant twin to Delta Pavonis, which was converted into an enormous neutron computer.
Resurgam
A desert planetDesert planet
A desert planet is a single-biome planet on which the climate is mostly desert, with little or no natural precipitation. Desert planets are known to exist; Mars is often considered a prime example. Indeed, many terrestrial planets would be considered desert planets by this definition...
orbiting the star Delta Pavonis
Delta Pavonis
Delta Pavonis is a star about 19.9 light years away from Earth. It is in the constellation Pavo.-Observations:It is a subgiant of spectral type G8 IV, meaning it is about to stop fusing hydrogen in its core and is starting the process of becoming a red giant. Because of that, Delta Pavonis is...
with buried artefacts from a now-extinct avian alien race known as the Amarantin (who later were discovered to be the ancestors of the Shrouders). It was colonised by an expedition led by Dan Sylveste to uncover the remains of this species and to shed some insight into the lack of space-faring sentience in the galaxy
Galaxy
A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally "milky", a...
.
Roc
A gas giant harvested of its rocky core to form a machine turning Delta Pavonis into a giant 'flamethrower' to destroy ResurgamGlitter Band/Rust Belt
A conglomeration of 10,000 exquisitely unique orbital habitats around Yellowstone. One of the most famous locations in human history, it was the home to billions of people from across the galaxy. It was also a place of cultural, philosophical and physical diversity and a central hub of business and trade in human space. In regards to its socio-political organization and importance in the fields mentioned previously, the Glitter Band strongly resembles Classical GreeceClassical Greece
Classical Greece was a 200 year period in Greek culture lasting from the 5th through 4th centuries BC. This classical period had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire and greatly influenced the foundation of Western civilizations. Much of modern Western politics, artistic thought, such as...
.
The Glitter Band was destroyed by the Melding Plague. The plague made the nanotechnology that many of the habitats relied on mutate out of human control and this subsequently caused some of the more susceptible habitats to break apart or explode. This caused a lethal chain reaction; because with each habitat that was destroyed the chances of debris hitting and destroying other habitats was greatly increased. Even if the debris did not destroy the habitats immediately, they all invariably were tainted with traces of the plague. By the time the plague had passed, only a hundred of the most heavily fortified and secure habitats remained. The place became known as the Rust Belt, because of the hundreds of dead or destroyed habitats remaining in orbit.
After the plague, the Rust Belt became more secure, as it was slowly cleaned up and decontaminated of any residual plague elements. A space-based economy eventually reasserted itself, although it never achieved its former greatness. Like all of Yellowstone, it was destroyed by the Inhibitors in 2698.
Tangerine Dream
This is the largest SupergiantGas giant
A gas giant is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. There are four gas giants in the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune...
in the Yellowstone system. Antoinette Bax disposes of her father's body in its atmosphere and first meets Clavain during the act. This may correspond with the real life extrasolar planet candidate Epsilon Eridani b, which masses between 0.9 and 1.5 that of Jupiter.
Yellowstone
The site of the Chasm City and Glitter Band habitats, orbiting Epsilon EridaniEpsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a star in the southern constellation Eridanus, along a declination 9.46° south of the celestial equator. This allows the star to be viewed from most of the Earth's surface. At a distance of 10.5 light years , it has an apparent magnitude of 3.73...
. Originally settled by Americans the same way as Diadem, the colony failed in what appears to be similarly murderous manner. Re-settled by Demarchists a century later, Yellowstone is a pinnacle of human civilisation from approximately 2350 until 2510. By the time of the bulk of the Revelation Space works this planet has been devastated by the Melding Plague. As a result, the remnants of the Glitter Band are then referred to as the Rust Belt. Reynolds's 2007 novel The Prefect
The Prefect
The Prefect is a 2007 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds . It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, and takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories...
is set around Yellowstone and the Glitter Band during their prime, about 100 years before the events of Chasm City
Chasm City
Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a...
. At this point, it was the home of the Yellowstone Demarchy. Human civilisation on Yellowstone was destroyed by the Inhibitors in 2698.
Chasm City
This is the largest settlement on Yellowstone. When the Amerikanos originally settled the system by robot, the location of Chasm City (a huge crater spewing unusual gases) was spotted. The crater and gases help to provide a breathable atmosphere for the city that is contained underneath 18 huge biodomes known collectively as "The Mosquito Net".Chasm City became one of humanity's greatest achievements as the Demarchists presided over a golden age known as the Belle Epoque. During this time, the city itself and the planet's orbiting habitat system (The Glitter Band) became a humanity-wide byword for opulence, luxury and success.
This all changed however, with the onset of The Melding plague. As the buildings, implants and technology that ran Chasm City were disrupted and ran amok, the city in its current state was effectively destroyed along with its golden age. Humanity survived though, falling back onto long abandoned technology such as steam power and the city stratified itself into 2 layers; The Mulch, and The Canopy.
The Mulch is a shanty town at street level where the melding plague remained rife (possibly still existent), and The Canopy being a relatively modern retreat in the topmost stratum where the rich cling to their technologically enabled lifestyle with the remnants of their nanotechnology. Chasm City, like all of Yellowstone, is wiped out by the Inhibitors in 2698.
Monument to the Eighty
A monument on Yellowstone commemorating the self-sacrifice of eighty volunteers of a scientific experiment led by the character Calvin Sylveste (who was one of the eighty himself). The goal of the experiment was to map the complete neural structure of the human brainHuman brain
The human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times larger than the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size. Estimates for the number of neurons in the human brain range from 80 to 120 billion...
into a computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
, making the computer a host for the mind in question. This would preserve the mind and memories, while the scanned person would be run as a simulation. The volunteers died as a result of the "brain-scanning" and many of the simulations crashed shortly after, hence a monument was built in their honour.
EuropaEuropa (moon)Europa Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and probably has an iron core. It has a tenuous atmosphere composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is composed of ice and is one of the smoothest in the Solar System. This surface is striated by cracks and...
One of the larger moons of JupiterJupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
, where the Demarchists first rose to become one of humanity's most advanced societies, living in cities hanging from the bottom of the moon's icy crust, at the top of the subterranean ocean. The hanging cities of Europa were later destroyed.
MarsMarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
The fourth planet of our own Solar system, where the Conjoiners first arise and develop their unique attributes, and where other factions led by Nevil Clavain wage war against them, and where Clavain later joins them. It is later colonised by baseline humanity.PhobosPhobos (moon)Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Both moons were discovered in 1877. With a mean radius of , Phobos is 7.24 times as massive as Deimos...
The nearer of Mars's moons, the interior of which the Conjoiners hollow out to use as a shipyard and source of raw material for building the first lighthugger, which they would use to escape the Solar system.Haldora
Formerly appearing to be a Gas giantGas giant
A gas giant is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. There are four gas giants in the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune...
planet orbiting the star 107 Piscium, was discovered to be a mechanical connection device between the local universe and an adjacent one, which was disguised through a faltering projection system.
Hela
A natural satelliteNatural satellite
A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called its primary. The two terms are used synonymously for non-artificial satellites of planets, of dwarf planets, and of minor planets....
of Haldora. Controlled by a theocracy
Theocracy
Theocracy is a form of organization in which the official policy is to be governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided, or simply pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religious sect or religion....
which used viruses to induce religious faith. Hela is of central importance to the events of Absolution Gap
Absolution Gap
Absolution Gap is a 2003 science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It takes place in the Revelation Space universe and is a direct sequel to Redemption Ark.-Plot summary:...
, which deal with, amongst other things, the search for the mysterious "Shadows" believed to be in the proximity of Hela and capable of defeating the inhibitors.
Ararat
A planet orbiting the star p EridaniP Eridani
p Eridani is a binary star system in the constellation of Eridanus whose distance is approximately 26 light-years. It was found to be a double star in December 1825 by James Dunlop in Australia at his home at Paramatta, now spelt Parramatta.- Naming :The name "p Eridani", according to Nature,...
. A planet of the Pattern Jugglers. The refugees from the Resurgam colony and Clavain's expedition retreat to Ararat to await Remontoire.
Diadem
An icy planet orbiting the star Ross 248 and the first of many to be explored by the Conjoiners outside of our own Solar system. It was colonized by Americans approximately 100 years before the Conjoiner explorers arrived. The Americans sent self-replicating robots to Diadem with frozen human embryos, since transporting living humans across space was not yet possible at that time. However, after building the colony and raising the embryos, the robots were destroyed by the resulting humans because it was believed that the robots were "holding them back" and "mollycoddling" them". Subsequently, the colony collapsed apparently because of the spread of a psychological disorder that slowly killed the human colonists.However, as it turned out, the collapse of the colony was all part of a plan by Martin Setterholm, an American scientist who spent his life studying a species of worm that lived in the Diadem ice. During his studies he discovered that the worms that lived in the ice left chemical traces wherever they went, leading him to theorize that the planet was a sentient being, which used the worms in a similar way that the human brain uses electro-chemical impulses. Setterholm gradually poisoned the rest of the population to stop the colony from using the habitat of the worms, the ice, as fuel for the main fusion reactor. He then assumed the identity of Iverson, another colonist. However, 100 years later (after being unfrozen from a makeshift cryonic
Cryonics
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology...
chamber by the Conjoiners), his deception was discovered and he was brought to justice by Nevil Clavain.
Fand
A planet orbiting the star Lacaille 9352Lacaille 9352
Lacaille 9352 is a red dwarf star approximately 3.29 pc or 10.74 light years from Earth's Solar System. This star has the fourth highest known proper motion, moving a total of 6.9 arcseconds per year...
. Home of the Fand "Screech Mat," an organism briefly referenced in Galactic North
Galactic North
Galactic North is a collection of short stories by the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds...
.
Grand Teton
Briefly referenced in several books as being one of the larger Demarchies, and a "nice" place to live. Home of the "Slime Scraper", a species of organism native to the planet.Haven
A planet orbiting the star Gl 687Gl 687
Gliese 687, or GJ 687 is a red dwarf star in the constellation Draco. This is one of the closest stars to the Sun and lies at an approximate distance of less than 15 light years. Even though it is close by, it has a magnitude of about 9 so it can only be seen through a moderate sized telescope...
. It is controlled by the Demarchists.
Sky's Edge
An EarthEarth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
-like planet in a perpetual state of war between settler families. Home to the Hamadryads. It orbits the star 61 Cygni
61 Cygni
61 Cygni,Not to be confused with 16 Cygni, a more distant system containing two G-type stars harboring the gas giant planet 16 Cygni Bb. sometimes called Bessel's Star or Piazzi's Flying Star, is a binary star system in the constellation Cygnus...
. In the Revelation Space universe, Sky's Edge is the only planet to be settled by a generation ship
Generation ship
A generation ship is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than the speed of light...
. The planet's history is described in the book Chasm City
Chasm City
Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a...
. Before the invention of lighthugger ships, a flotilla of five generation ships (Santiago, Brasilia, Islamabad, Palestine and Baghdad) travelling at eight percent of light speed was deployed from Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
to 61 Cygni, each with 150 waking crew and just over one thousand cryogenically frozen colonists (know to the crew as momios, as a Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
-based calque
Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation.-Calque:...
of the word mummies
Mummy
A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...
). The planet was named after Sky Haussmann, a man who caused the Santiago to overtake the other ships and arrive first at Sky's Edge by jettisoning most of the frozen passengers, and who was later crucified
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
for his crime. (In actuality, he had a stand-in crucified, whilst he escaped).
Upon arrival at Sky's Edge, the populations of the generation ships went to war with one another, the colonists of the Santiago settling in the South and the colonists of the two other surviving ships living in the North. During the course of the journey, Sky, as captain of the Santiago, had alienated the other two ships and hostilities eventually escalated into war when they landed. The war apparently lasted until not long before the human population of Sky's Edge was destroyed by the Inhibitors. The short story "Nightingale" takes place several decades after Chasm City
Chasm City
Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a...
, and only few years after centuries-long war came to an end.
Sky's Edge is described as relatively backwards compared with some human worlds, as it possesses little in the way of high technology and few can afford things such as the immortality
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
treatments readily available elsewhere in colonised space. The war raging on Sky's Edge is the reason for this, the planet apparently exports little but a few biological products harvested from its extensive jungles due to its industries being devoted to the war and so trading ships only stop by about once a decade, usually after being snubbed by traders in more lucrative markets. The people of Sky's Edge rarely buy anything but weapons from the Ultra traders. Only Nueva Valparaiso has remained relatively unscathed by the war, because it is the site of a space elevator
Space elevator
A space elevator, also known as a geostationary orbital tether or a beanstalk, is a proposed non-rocket spacelaunch structure...
which is destroyed during the events of Chasm City
Chasm City
Chasm City is a 2001 science fiction novel by author Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe. It deals with themes of identity, memory, and immortality, and many of its scenes are concerned primarily with describing the unusual societal and physical structure of the titular city, a...
; this is run by the cult of Sky Haussmann.
The ecology of Sky's Edge is superficially Earth-like, as it includes recognisable plants and animals but it is said to be metabolically incompatible with Earth flora and fauna, causing fatal anaphylactic shock in any creature or person who tries to consume it.
Spindrift
A planet of the Pattern Jugglers. Dan Sylveste visits this planet to obtain the necessary information to enter the Shrouder enclaves. He succeeds in doing so, but inside the Shrouds he is infected by the Sun Stealer.Turquoise
A planet of the Pattern Jugglers which orbits the star Groombridge 1618Groombridge 1618
Groombridge 1618 is a star in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located close to Earth, at a distance of less than 16 light years. This is an orange dwarf star of spectral type K5 V.-Properties:...
. It was the home of a primitive human civilization (by the standards of Revelation Space) that was almost entirely cut off from the rest of humanity. The novella Turquoise Days focuses on the fall of this civilization.
Zion
A planet orbiting the star Lalande 21185Lalande 21185
Lalande 21185 is a red dwarf star in the constellation of Ursa Major. Although relatively close by, it is only magnitude 7 in visible light and thus is too dim to see with the unaided eye...
. Little is known about it, save the fact that contact with it is lost during the Human-Inhibitor war.
See also
- Revelation Space universeRevelation Space universeThe Revelation Space universe is a fictional universe which was created by Alastair Reynolds and used as the setting for a number of his novels and stories...
- Characters in Revelation SpaceCharacters in Revelation SpaceThese are major characters from the various novels and stories that make up Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space universe.- Ana Khouri :...
- Factions in Revelation SpaceFactions in Revelation SpaceThis is a list of fictional factions in Revelation Space. The human factions are found in the Revelation Space universe, the setting for a series of stories and novels by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.-Interstellar factions:...
- Races in Revelation SpaceRaces in Revelation SpaceThis is a list of fictional alien and modified human races in the fictional Revelation Space universe created by Alastair Reynolds.-Denizens:Denizens are a heavily engineered sentient species created on Europa by the Europan Demarchy...
- Technology in Revelation SpaceTechnology in Revelation SpaceThis article lists elements of technology in the fictional Revelation Space universe created by Alastair Reynolds.- Abstractions and entoptics :Abstraction is the process by which humans with neural implants gain access to wireless data networks, the data rate of which is far beyond anything...