The Chasm of absolution is the ultimate novel of the Revelation Space universe ...

Thwarting the hazards that dot the spatial vastness, humanity is on the run, while the machines continue their timeless eradication program all biological civilizations and note in passing that no matter for inhibitors, biological species that animates these Civilizations.

Here, humanity is in tatters and in such unlikely situations and dangerous as other protagonists, alien glimpsed earlier in the cycle, which are placed in no less perilous situations that humanity, while their aims and aspirations are as impenetrable to us, their strangeness is clear and interrogated by the author ...

On some sections of the human space, on some worlds, some are unaware that civilization goes out, and it is also unclear on the vessels which were launched long in the vastness, arrive suddenly and unexpectedly at the edge of the brutal and ruthless events that now weave the fabric of the now inevitably tragic history.

In it, the universe is more than ever a place where are unlikely worlds and environments, which are also sometimes a wink to the great novels of the genre.

In this volume the pursuit continues, ruthless, while a Porko, leads the survivors. At the edge of the potential and probable extinction, humanity proves true to itself.
That is to say, as spectacularly generous and cooperative often murderous sociopath. This is perhaps the last word because otherwise I do not see any real and irremediable end at the end of this pursuit through space and time?

The author's style is at his best and he is quite able to swallow the most devious player, the factual aspects or behavioral aspects, the most unlikely and most staggered.

For my part, I am not very sensitive to the theme of providential figures rise sumptuous mayonnaise. The grandiose aspects of certain environments mobilized by the text seemed to me quite unlikely and eventually it seemed to me to have decorum as whimsical as useless. A sort of grandiloquence mannered factual megalomaniac as useless as unlikely, even if we feel that this may be metaphors or frames used to ask political or moral issues edifying, of spectacular and emphatic ways ....

As for the adventures of the main group of refugees, it is an interesting adventure, well paced, tense and evocative who lets devour with pleasure, especially since the author makes great efforts to develop scenically setting technologies aeuvre breathtaking futuristic, military primarily, but not exclusively. And the intriguing and fascinating Porkos (pig chimeras and humans) are featured in this story, which gives it a curious flavor.

These efforts of the author give the text an undeniable reality of perfume, which contrasts all the more with some other aspects of the story, which IMHO are abuse "sense of Wonder" or abuse of fantastic features, so outraged, they perhaps may end up confronting the reader with a threshold and eventually they also end up risking lead him to reject outright a significant part of the novel.

This was my case and that is unfortunate but IMHO worth the ride anyway ....?