Revelation Space: Mysteries Of The Melding Plague

Today, we are deep diving into Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe and unravelling its most intriguing mysteries – The Melding Plague.

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0:00 - Intro
0:53 - What is the Melding Plague?
2:10 - The Impact of the Melding Plague
3:36 - Theory 1: engineered as a weapon
5:50 - Theory 2: an experiment gone awry
7:22 - Theory 3: A natural phenomenon
9:09 - Theory 4: Sabotage
10:55 - The origins of the Melding Plague
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS

DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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[AndreShouldBeWriting]

Your videos are so well scripted... I'm always impressed. Not only they are clear and concise, but damn, they are good writing.

[RichardBarclay]

Want the origin explained in Chasm City? Something to do with the Grubs? And Dream Fuel was the cure which is excreted by the Grubs? It's been a while since I read it so maybe I'm misremembering.

[barryvercueil]

Excellent video. The books are definitely worth a read.

[libertyauto]

Thanks for this video. I always wondered if other people saw the plague like I did.
I love the Revelation Space novels. Glitter City is fascinating. And oh my goodness, the Pattern Jugglers!

[MrCushcam]

Great Video Darrell. I would love to see you dive into how to read the revelation space books, similar to your Culture video

[anamariab]

Reynolds did give an explanation of how he melding plague started in Elysium Fire.

[morganjones]

I assumed the melding plague was a natural phenomenon because I'm a cosmic horror girlie, but I'm going to have to keep the sabotage theory in mind when I eventually do a reread.

[jamesoliver]

Great video, not read revelation space series yet, it’s definitely getting a bump up the list!

[dogs_best_friend]

You can see that Reynolds is heavily influenced by Clarke, Gibson and Niven with a bit of Bear thrown in. Probably why I like him so much.

[handicapcrippin]

Been playing starfield and was thinking about revelation space this morning. Nice timing

[shadowshadow]

read the books years ago This reminded me how good the ideas were
In the 50s and 60s when they looked ahead to today they thought we would be living in undersea cities
Living on the moon and Mars
Travel around the planet
what was missed was personal computers how they would change our work and relationships
When we look ahead from now say 100 years will tec have continued to improve or will we devolve

[steviemartin]

I'm pretty sure that it was caused by grub molecular technology not playing well with human nanotech. I think that the grub's red fluid tries to harmonise inorganic and organic microscopic structures by reorganising them but accidentally destroying both in the process.

Pretty sure that it is explained in Chasm City. I may be wrong it has been years since I read that one.

[SciFiScavenger]

Hey, nice work. What do you use for your video clips? Ta, Jon

[MRDDev]

IF you read Chasm City I think you'll learn the origin. Its not 100% clear and its just a sentence but its there.

[IRosamelia]

Darrel, just so that you know, these deep dive titles are the most clickable of your content. Youtube is so saturated of listings so alike "ten best tv series" that it's kinda meh. A good mysterious/creepy/obscure maybe a little bit uninti..ligi..lige..bly? ble? blu... title is so many times more alluring. Today's title was spot on, I was like clickity clickackity click click!
See people? See? I can say useful things to Darrel without drooling all the time, success! 😎

[kmmrjr]

I like reading Sci-Fi. Stand-alone novels don't do for me anymore. I am a person who likes books. Audiobooks and e-books are, at times, missing parts of the novel. Back to my main point, I like reading book series. I have been reading Sci-Fi for more than six decades. I am retired and prefer Sci-Fi series. I read some of the books that you recommended a long time ago. What I am looking for in reviews or recommendations is a modern series. I've read the "Expanse" series, the "Void" series by Peter F. Hamilton, plus other series too numerous to mention. I am currently reading the second volume of "The Inhibitor" series. I have read the "Revenger" series. I will be reading "The Imperial Radch" series by Ann Leckie. Can you recommend a later series than those I've finished. a while back. I am currently using a search engine to find new series to read.

[treefarm]

Thanks! Actually my best friend is working in nanotechnology as part of optics experiments.

[zerrodefex]

How is "sabotage" different from it being a weapon?