Revelation Space (franchise)/Trivia

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"'I had the same dream,' I said, wonderingly. 'And there was another dream in which I was inside somekind- of I halted, waiting for the words to assemble in my head. 'Some kind of underground tomb. I remember being chased down a corridor by an enormous stone ball which was going to roll over me.' Hirz nodded. 'The dream with the hat, right?' 'My God, yes.' I grinned like a madman. 'I lost my hat, and I felt this ridiculous urge to rescue it!'"
 * Old Shame / Creator Backlash : In the afterword of Galactic North, author Alistair Reynolds admitted that his Revelation Space novels are derived in part from a much more space-opera-ish set of unpublished novels which he devoutly intends should never see print, although he regards them as a valuable learning experience.
 * Also, an experimental short story called Pandora's Box. He ceremoniously destroyed every single copy of it printed in the English language during his visit at Finn Con 2009. There is a Finnish translation though, so it still exists in Finnish.
 * Shout-Out: Diamond Dogs has two, in a sequence where the protagonist's party, about to enter a lethal maze, are dream-fed similar scenarios in case they help:

"Celestine broke the silence, turning to Hirz. 'Did you have the one about the cubes, too?' 'Christ, yes,' the infiltration specialist said, as if suddenly remembering. 'The cubes. What about you, Richard?' 'Indeed,' I answered, flinching at the memory of that one. I had been one of a party of people trapped inside an endless series of cubic rooms, many of which contained lethal surprises. 'I was cut into pieces by a trap, actually. Diced, if I remember accurately.' 'Yeah. Not exactly on my top ten list of ways to die, either.'"
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 * Don't forget the Shout-Out implicit in the title, to David Bowie's album Diamond Dogs (which was based loosely on George Orwell's 1984). And it doesn't end there : Reynolds is a self-confessed fan of 70s and 80s music, and it shows... A gas giant in the same system as Yellowstone (Epsilon Eridani) is called Tangerine Dream. Pre-Plague Yellowstone's ring of orbital habitats is called The Glitter Band. And the very name of the Pattern Jugglers may be a reference to a verse from King Crimson's well-known song In The Court Of The Crimson King.
 * The name of Roland Childe and his feverish attempts to decipher the secret of Blood Spire in Diamond Dogs is a reference to a verse from King Lear : "Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still 'Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man."
 * Chasm City refers to Ultra-supplied built-in eye night vision as "eyeshine".
 * Shown Their Work: Reynolds is a former astronomer and a former ESA employee.