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The book opens in the year 2551, [[Naming Your Colony World|on the planet]] [[Meaningful Name|Resurgam]]. Resurgam is considered a technological backwater on the edge of colonized human space. Founded only decades before, the colony has not yet had time to significantly terraform the planet; thus, the majority of it is still a barren wasteland, devoid of life. Dan Sylveste, an [[Adventurer Archaeologist|archaeologist]], [[Mean Boss|leader of the colony]], and [[Blue Blood|wealthy scion of a prominent scientific family]], leads a team excavating the remains of the Amarantin, a [[Absent Aliens|long-dead primitive civilization]] that once existed on Resurgam over nine hundred thousand years prior. As a violent dust storm threatens to temporarily shut down the excavation, Sylveste discovers new evidence that the Amarantin achieved a [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis|much higher level of technological sophistication]] than was previously known...before they were [[Gotterdammerung|wiped out in a single mysterious cataclysm]].

Due to the time dilation effects of light-speed travel, the novel juxtaposes three different plotlines as happening concurrent with each other, despite being separated by decades. The whole thing is set against the backdrop of Reynold's expansive and complex [[The Verse|universe]], which the novel introduces.

 

* [[Absent Aliens]]: ''Revelation Space'' is littered with examples of this, though the reasons for why are only hinted at towards the end of the novel. The sequels further explore and explain this.

* [[Action Girl]]: Both Ilia Volyova and Ana Khouri, verging at points into [[Back-to-Back Badasses]].

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