Absolution Gap

Absolution Gap

By Alastair Reynolds

Part of the Revelation Space Book Series
Reviewed by Matt Crampton
Buy from Amazon The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety - or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn to Clavain and his companions that to beat the enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolution_Gap https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89184.Absolution_Gap
Published in 2005
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