Alastair Reynolds on Trying to Encompass the Entire History of Science Fiction in One Novel". 4 November 2022. Minla's Flowers" – Originally published in The New Space Opera (2007, ISBN 978-0-06-084675-6), Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, eds.

Beyond the Aquila Rift" – Originally published in Constellations (2005), Peter Crowther, ed.; reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006, ISBN 0-312-35334-0), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in Year's Best SF 11 (2006, ISBN 978-0-06-087341-7), David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds.. Well, there is a space ship. Eventually. After there are three other kinds of vessels over a total of four time periods. But while the vessels and the years change, the characters, mostly do not. Well, except when they do. Reynolds, Alastair (10 March 2019). "Love, Death & Robots". Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon (author's official blog) . Retrieved 12 March 2019. Reynolds, Alastair (4 August 2021). "I've delivered a new book". Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon (Reynolds' personal blog). This is a SF novel, which starts as a historical novel about naval exploration, but then grows to something more. The author – Alastair Reynolds – is quite famous for his space opera Revelation Space as well as other works, but I’ve never read him before, except for his novella Permafrost. I liked what I’ve read and plan to try more from him. I read it as a part of monthly reading for October 2022 at SFF Hot from Printers: New Releases group. The book was published in 2022 and therefore eligible for the next year's SFF awards.

Before that, I completed the last two novels in the Revenger sequence about the Ness sisters, SHADOW If you’re a fan of Reynold’s space operatic stories, you’ll need to adjust your expectations, but patience gets a big reward in this perfectly executed novel. Eversion is a finely written science fiction mystery that I could not put down. Nightingale" – Originally published in Galactic North (2006); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2006, ISBN 978-0-312-36335-2), Gardner Dozois, ed.

Spirey and the Queen – a novelette by Alastair Reynolds". Infinityplus.co.uk . Retrieved 10 June 2013. The key to the success of Eversion is in Reynolds’ delight in how he describes each setting. The first several chapters of the book only ever hint at the science-fictional premise behind the events; taken separately, they are simply adventure stories about a ship on a mission for exploration and profit. Reynolds harnesses the tropes and storytelling devices in the tradition of authors like Jules Verne, creating an immersive, entertaining atmosphere with each setting Silas finds himself in. I love each of them. The Water Thief" – originally published in Arc 1.1 / The Future Aways Wins (February 2012), Sumit Paul-Choudhury, Simon Ings, eds. Zima Blue" – Originally published in Postscripts # 4 (Summer 2005); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006, ISBN 0-312-35334-0), Gardner Dozois, ed..The nitty-gritty: A mind-bending mystery through time and space, Eversiontakes readers on a dangerous journey of discovery. Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee" - originally published in Bridging Infinity, Solaris Press (October 2016), Jonathan Strahan ed. Simone and his fabulous friends and enemies are suspended in a vicious, never-ending battle for status, fought through clothes, make-up and accessories, sometimes leaving literal fashion victims in their wake. This sense of dangerously pointy high stakes beneath the ruffles and froth recalls writers like Edith Wharton, whose stories dissect the mores of the very rich who lived and schemed during the so-called Gilded Age of the 19th-century US. The Fixation – Originally published in a Finnish language, Hannun basaarissa a limited edition booklet of about 200 copies in tribute to Hannu Blommila in Finland (2007); reprinted in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3 (February 2009), George Mann, ed.. THE PREFECT (2007) Crime and punishment in the RS universe. A crisis for Prefect Dreyfus in the near-utopia of the Glitter Band. 2017 will see the publication of the follow-up, set two years after the events of this book and featuring the established cast.

Century Rain takes place in a future universe independent of the Revelation Space universe and has different rules, such as faster-than-light travel being possible through a system of portals similar to wormholes. Century Rain also departs substantially from Reynolds's previous works, both in having a protagonist who is much closer to the perspective of our real world (in fact he is from a version of our past), serving as a proxy for the reader in confronting the unfamiliarity of the advanced science fiction aspects and in having a much more linear storytelling process. Reynolds's previous protagonists started out fully absorbed in the exoticisms of the future setting and his previous Revelation Space works have several interlinked story threads, not necessarily contemporaneous. According to Reynolds, while Century Rain is a "personal favorite", he has "sworn there will never be a sequel". [5] At every stage of this mystery, Reynolds describes the technologies of the various vessels in great detail as well as the increasingly sophisticated instrumentation and mathematics for pinpointing and identifying the big, dumb object that proves so elusive to the explorers. But for me, the most memorable parts of the story, as is often the case in Alastair Reynolds’ writing, relate to the inner drives of the characters he creates and his depiction of a particular type of longing for relationships that are always out of reach. a b c Ulen, Neal. "An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds". Futurism. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019 . Retrieved 17 January 2019.Great Wall of Mars" – Originally published in Spectrum SF #1 (February 2000); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001, ISBN 0-312-27465-3), Gardner Dozois, ed. I will say, though, that this is not a typical big Reynolds story. It carries a different vibe from the majority of his work I’ve read. It matches his more character focused novellas in scope, delivering on human moments with a hefty side helping of science fiction “ideas.” So while I was a little disappointed that he didn’t go harder in the paint with his bread and butter, I was more than satisfied by the particular exploration offered here. Terminal World, published in March 2010 was described by Reynolds as "a kind of steampunk-tinged planetary romance, set in the distant future". As with Century Rain, Reynolds has said that he does not plan any further work in the universe of Terminal World. [5] a b c d e f Strahan, Jonathan, ed. (2010), Godlike Machines, Garden City, New York: Science Fiction Book Club, p.1, ISBN 978-1-61664-759-9 Scales" – Originally published in The Guardian (2009); and posted free online at Lightspeed Magazine. [37]