Richard reunites with his friend Roland Childe, believed dead, in Chasm City, only to be recruited into an expedition inside the Blood Spire, an alien tower riddled with escalating, lethal mathematical puzzles. As the team pushes deeper, the price of climbing higher turns out to be more than any of them bargained for, in one of Alastair Reynolds's most unsettling stand-alone Revelation Space novellas.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Revelation Space
- contained in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynoldscollection
- contained in Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Dayscollection
- contained in Infinitiesanthology
- contained in The Revelation Space Collection: Volume 1collection