First a small flat, if the characters in this novel are solid, I felt a certain structural weakness in their speech and behavior at certain key moment of the plot, which basically nothing tarnishes the credibility of this beautiful space opera, but no failure to which the author has not used us before.
This also applies to certain aliens (not all), which are still not a cliché, while their behaviors are complex and interesting at the same time ..
That said, the story is ambitious and context of hard science is also easily digestible, endorsement, complex and nuanced than interesting.
It is a long journey we invite the author of the outer solar system near a distant star.
A wonderful trip on a visionary spaceship where the reader will have the satisfaction to inspect piping and intimately know the crew ..
The road continues on a mysterious artifact, credible and interesting, while the end of the road will not disappointing either from the standpoint of the space environment and technological developments ..
The story is well paced.
It is infinitely credible astrophysics and technological points of view while the thematic material is well developed and it feeds this novel sound and relevant ways.
The storyline is solid and all these varied elements are exceedingly well blended.
This process is carried out taking into account masterfully the passing time and changing database, while contexts transform and radically changed the situation.
As usual, the author continues to reinterpret the classic themes of space opera and science fiction in general, forging a sumptuous and totalizing material, elegantly whose essential characteristics can be summarized by saying that the elegance, density and scale characterizes ..
With Alastair Reynolds, one thing is certain: the space opera has a future ....
Janus is a "stand alone" but suites are possible (yum ... yum) and even expected, no doubt ...
A very accessible novel when compared to very dense, very complex, very remarkable and very meticulous Revelation Space universe ...
