List of Revelation Space locations
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This List of Revelation Space locations lists locations appearing in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe.
See also: Locations in Revelation Space
- Ararat
- A planet orbiting the star p Eridani
- Cerberus
- An artificial planet near Resurgam
- Europa
- The moon of Jupiter, where the Demarchists first rise to become one of humanity's most advanced societies, living in cities just under the crust, at the top of the subterranean ocean. The cities of Europa were later destroyed.
- Fand
- A planet orbiting the star Lacaille 9352.
- First System
- Another term for our own Solar system.
- Hades
- A neutron star near Resurgam
- Haldora
- A planet
- Haven
- A planet orbiting the star Gl 687
- Hela
- A natural satellite of Haldora
- Mars
- The fourth planet of our own Solar system, where the Conjoiners first arise and develop their unique attributes, and where other factions led by Nevil Clavain wage war against them, and where Clavain later joins them
- Phobos
- The nearer of Mars's moons, the interior of which the Conjoiners hollow out to use as a shipyard and source of raw material for building the first lighthugger, which they would use to escape the Solar system
- Resurgam
- A desert planet with buried artifacts from a now-extinct avian alien race. It orbits the star Delta Pavonis
- Sky's Edge
- An Earth-like planet in a perpetual state of war between settler families. Home to the Hamadryads. It orbits the star 61 Cygni
- Turquoise
- A planet of the Pattern Jugglers. It orbits the star Groombridge 1618.
- Yellowstone
- The site of the Chasm City and Glitter Band habitats, orbiting Epsilon Eridani. Formerly the pinnacle of human civilisation, by the time of the bulk of the Revelation Space works, this planet has been devastated by the Melding Plague. As a result, the remnants of the Glitter Band are "now" referred to as the Rust Belt. However, Reynolds's next novel is set around Yellowstone and mostly in the Glitter Band during their prime, about 100 years before the events of Chasm City
- Zion
- A planet orbiting the star Lalande 21185