The way it evolves is just one of the great chunky ideas in the book that fans of thoughtful sci fi will love. It develops through the book is pivotal to how events unfold. The central relationship between Miguel and Glass is the key. Thankfully, they feel filled with characters that you can care about. Without the situation that Miguel finds himself forced into, there would be no sense of urgency in the book and all the set pieces and sentient spacecraft would just feel empty. It can be easy to lose a sense of character when you are dealing with large concepts, but Reynolds balances character development and great science fiction concepts well.
The story of Inhibitor covers vast areas of space and also time as we learn from flashbacks and the words of others of who Miguel once was. It did feel at times that the reader was meeting some old friends from previous books, but these sections were written in such a way that as a newbie you enjoyed them, but a familiar reader could glean even more depth. Any baggage is added on the way as the story progresses. It surrounds the character of Miguel who is given his own arc. I can attest that it works independently as a book. The author says that it can be read in its own right, and I am a great guinea pig for that theory as I have not read any other books in the series. Inhibitor is the latest in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe but acts as a standalone novel. When a survivor called Glass is recovered it will change the direction of Miguel’s life as it seems he once had another life, one that he needs to remember if humans are ever going to fight back against the ‘wolves.’ Miguel’s energies go into supporting the 5000 lives under his care.
Miguel de Ruyter is the leader of a small group of humans hiding out on a remote outpost. The vast majority of our race has been exterminated by the powerful ‘wolves’ who still track down and kill any humans they find. There is a place for space-based science fiction with lofty ideas, that space is great, and that space is in this book. Then I read something like Inhibitor Space by Alastair Reynolds, and I feel sorry for them. I try to point out that the genre is a vast one that contains speculative fiction that is close to our own world and is not just meaty space operas. They cannot understand sentient spaceships or aliens that think differently to ourselves. When I talk to readers who do not like Science Fiction, I have found they say their minds just cannot get around the fantastical nature of the ideas contained within.
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