The futuristic aspects of these worlds are really searched. Characters naturally take into account at every moment, they are the natural expression and the reader may sometimes have a little trouble understanding some aspect of the environment or of cultures and socio-cultural identities, sometimes, can struggle to grasp fully how to distribute space and volume simply is saying!
The machines threaten to destroy the entire human societies struggling to react because the information does not flow at the speed of light, and because the threat is not aware to time.
The city of the abyss is a thriller-type story of fairly classic. Arms dealers, car chases from one world to another, mysterious and varied issues that will eventually let glimpse the ultimate threat, that of machines.
This narrative is friendly. It is well put together and the characters are captivating because although very readable, yet they belong to another mental world as ours, a fascinating world of complexity, with infinite potential.
The scenery is gorgeous and corrosive. This is an incredible city, located at the bottom of a gravity well. An unlikely environment or the bounds of science and cultures are so blurred as for example as improbable as Porcos beings conduct their lives in the shallows of this huge city. They are a viable creation of bioengineering, pigs and men, so true chimeras, with their own culture and their own political agenda.
The most classic themes of science fiction continues to be reformulated in this sumptuous and difficult access cycle due to complexity well supported, with a whimsical as breathtaking as classically rational. This is the theme of the chimera that is as old as the genre for example, the author brilliantly renews with Porcos.
The amateur player of the genre will discover here almost cyberpunk references, but completely transcended or ambiguous and that turn around, increases and body modifications sublimated varied post-humanity and declined according to a variable identities panels. Pests and diseases that affect the materials or sometimes intelligent tools, the immensity so vast it naturally confined to structural anarchy, anarchy as the cultural, political, technological, ethical and "last but not least the" interstellar travel in huge ships with fabulous potential ...
The Revelation Space universe is arduous and I remember having a hard (much) to enter this imaginary graph, but what a reward in the end because each volume is an incredible futuristic ballad.
Most themes of SF are mobilized and are the vector of a tedious and amazed discovery.
Eventually the city side of the abyss with his futuristic thriller is a good gateway to penetrate this fortress deemed impregnable, such as between the most impenetrable examples of authentic science fiction.
A splendid and formidable final comes close the future of the city of the abyss, which to me is now the past .... Sniff!
