In the Belly of the Whale vs Revenant Gun: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Hard science fiction, Space opera, Science Fiction, Fiction
In the Belly of the Whale
Winner of 2025 Prometheus Award for Best Novel of the Year"Pursuing humanity's redemption to its final interstellar frontier, Flynn delivers an impressive and original epic."—Publishers Weekly, starred review.Experience…
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Revenant Gun
"Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy.…
The verdict
- Readers rate Revenant Gun highest: Revenant Gun 4.2 · In the Belly of the Whale 3.9.
- Revenant Gun has the widest readership — 126 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| In the Belly of the Whale | Revenant Gun | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (116) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.3 (126) |
Reception
| In the Belly of the Whale | Revenant Gun | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 116 | 126 |
| Editions | 2 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 277 | — |
| Reading it now | 29 | — |
| Written reviews | 23 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1333 |
| Pages | 405 | 427 |