Redemption Ark
Nevil Clavain defects from the Conjoiners to keep them from monopolizing a devastating weapon, setting off a desperate chase across space, while on the planet Resurgam a team races to evacuate colonists as the alien Inhibitors begin dismantling the star system. The second novel in the Inhibitor trilogy, continuing directly from Revelation Space.
A brilliant, morally ambiguous scientist and smuggler caught between a plague outbreak on the Redemption Ark and an assassination plot against him.
An operative working for the Triumvirate who pursues Clavain across both storylines.
This novel serves as the second installment in the primary three-book sequence of the Revelation Space universe, following the events of the novel Revelation Space. While the author designed individual volumes to function as well-formed stories, reading the books in the sequence of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap provides the most cohesive experience of the overarching plot.
This title is part of a sprawling future history known as the Revelation Space universe, which encompasses multiple novels, novellas, and short stories. Other books set in this same universe, such as Chasm City or the Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, are standalone stories or separate sub-series that share the same setting but do not require reading in a specific order relative to this book.