If you’re the sort of reader who really does get upset about detail A in book X not squaring with detail B in book Y, you probably need to find another author. My inclination instead is to just make it up as I go along and trust that I do not involve myself in too many glaring contradictions. Yes, I had notes and files open when I worked on each book, but I never carried one over to the next. It might come as a surprise, but there is no “Bible” or extensive set of background notes.
The Revelation Space universe currently encompasses six novels and a cluster of short stories, of which all but “Monkey Suit”, “Night Passage” and “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa” are collected in the books Galactic North and Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days. For my own part, I enjoy writing in the RS universe but it can be very challenging to slot a new story into the existing architecture.Ĭover of the French edition of Redemption Ark. Judging from correspondence, readers also like the intricate character histories, weird inventions, glimpses of other worlds, and the overall gothic horror shadings of the whole enterprise. The RS universe is also big enough to contain lots of stories, and the combination of deep timescales, awesome technologies and mysterious alien species and artefacts, seems to touch a chord with many readers.
My early novels were all set against that background, as well as some of the stories that I wrote when I was first beginning to attract any attention from the wider SF community. Out of my dozen or so novels, and fifty-odd short stories, there’s no doubt that it’s the material related to the Revelation Space universe that attracts the most interest from readers. Yellowstone and the Glitter Band – Photoshop artwork by me.
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