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Inhibitor Phase

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
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About this listen

 Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past.

Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything ... utterly. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them.

Only something goes wrong.
There's a lone survivor.
And she know far more about Miguel than she's letting on...

Ranging from the depths of space to the deeps of Pattern Juggler waters, from nervous, isolated communities to the ruins of Empire, this is a stealthy space opera from an author at the top of his game. Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

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Has a bit more soul if you understand the history and references. Still good, but not the most compelling of the lot.

Not his best work, but it's a high bar

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More like this please! Excellent reading of a fantastic addition to the saga.

After the events of Absolution Gap I certainly had a sense that for whatever reason a certain time pressure caused a truncation to the ending of a, what so far had been, a marvellous trilogy. I'm pleased to say that Inhibitor Phase adds a great deal of additional material that is very satisfying. I can't really say any more without spoiling the story but suffice it to say I found it definitely worth the time.

A welcome return to Revelation Space!

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I have listened to seven Alastair Reynolds books and am a fan. You do need to kick back and allow the time to absorb the world, as that is the magic of these stories, being pulled fully into these complex worlds. I am a fan of John Lee's narration too, it just wouldn't be Reynolds with Lee, comforting, clear and precise. I think that 'Revelation Space', 'Pushing Ice' and 'The Prefect' may have the edge on this on story, but this is still a worthy listen. I would listen to the others first if you haven't, this is not required storywise, it's just they are all very engaging.

a worthy Alastair reynolds story!

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And the Narrator’s staccato delivery did not help but can be improved by reducing the speed to 0.9x

Starts well but drifts into improbable magic

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Definitely the weakest of the Revelation Space series. Probably just me but I really struggled to like the characters. The characters struggled to like each other. The characters struggled to like themselves. My nearest comparison of a disappointing book in an excellent series is “The Sea Watch” in Tchaikovski’s “Shadows of the Apt”. The author is obviously excellent and the narration is brilliant (which helps) but for some reason this book left me cold. Almost certainly a blip.
I did, for the sake of completism, finish it. I am sure future works will be more to my taste.

Hard work with this one.

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