After reading Chasm City for class, I felt a need to polish off Reynolds' series. I started carrying around Redemption Ark as my away-from-home book, but ended up finishing it at home one evening instead of spreading it out. Then I picked up and finished Absolution Gap which finishes the loose series. Each book could generally stand alone in the sense that things are pretty well wrapped up at the end, but in general it would be better to read them in order so things make a bit more sense, especially toward the end. If you like space opera with lots of storylines that eventually come together, and weird twists on humanity, read them.

Yesterday I picked up Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days which is a volume containing two novellas set in the same universe as Revelation Space and the others. It seems likely that I'll read it soon.
posted by kristin at 12:53 PM