alastair reynolds

I've just seen that there is a new Prefect Dreyfus book called "Machine Vendetta" coming for January 2024. "Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench...

Has anyone read INHIBITOR PHASE by Alastair Reynolds? If so, what do you reckon? While I still read quite a bit of SF, it's been a while since I've read Reynolds specifically, or his kind of chunky (or, er, bloated) SF in general. I really loved all the Revelation Space novels many years ago...

I just saw this new short story on the TOR.com website by Alistair Reynolds called Detonation Boulevard. In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers—there’s only one way...

I've not seen mention of this on the Chrons but interesting for Reynolds fans: From his blog: "Last week I completed the first set of revisions on Eversion, and the novel (now around 85,000 words) has now gone back to my editor. If all goes smoothly, there will be one more round of edits then...

Werthead recently announced that Alistair Reynolds has turned in a new novel set in the Revelation Space universe. Called Inhibitor Phase, I’ll definitely pick up a copy. Now there is a cover, I thought it’s be worth posting here. I’m not sure of the release date, but I hope it’s better than...

This is a novella that I decided to read as it provides a prequel to his Merlin stories which I thought I’d read in chronological order rather than published order. With a damaged spaceship Merlin is forced to take refuge on a planet with an intractable war in progress. With his superior...

Hi everyone, Recently Reynolds and Essa Hansen did an amazing conversation covering a wide range of topics, including a Q&A section that answered a lot of questions regarding their ways of writing and inspirations. You can find the full recording on the below link: Alastair Reynolds & Essa...

Hello, I'm new here so apologies if I'm asking an already answered question, but I couldn't find the answer myself. Also, move it if it's in the wrong forum. In the last few months, I've gone through the following books from the Revelation Space collection (in no particular order after the...

It is the end of a long and brutal religious war and Scur, a conscripted soldier, doing her best to fight with some semblance of humanity, has been captured and tortured by a known war criminal despite the ceasefire. Expecting only death she is surprised to wake up on a transport starship taking...

The Medusa Chronicles is a sequel to Arthur C Clarke’s novella A Meeting with Medusa (which I quickly read before this book), and I suspect you are always going to be taking a chance writing a sequel today (2016) to a story written so long ago (1971) and I think that this book suffers from that...

Bella Lind and her crew of the Rockhopper push ice; that is they attach crude drives to icy comets and send them on their way to the inner solar system. But when Janus, one of Saturn’s moons, proves itself to be something very different by abruptly heading out of the solar system at high speed...

Arafura and Adrana are teenagers who don’t much like their family life and so decide to run away and join a solar light sail powered spaceship, make their fortunes and return to bale out their impoverished father. That’s the idea anyway; of course nothing ever works out quite according to plan...

In case any Reynolds fans haven't noticed there is a sequel - Elysium Fire - to The Prefect (and maybe more, who knows) being published next January which I'm very much looking forward to; I thought the Prefect was great and one of my favourite of his books set in the Revelation Space universe...

Poseidon’s Wake is the third book in Reynold’s Poseidon’s Children series which I was under the impression was a trilogy (the first book’s blurb announced “Blue Remembered Earth is the first volume in a monumental trilogy…”) but if that’s the case then this book left at least one huge dangling...

Following on from the events of Blue Remembered Earth, ‘holoships’ have been dispatched to Crucible where incontrovertible evidence of an apparently long dead extra-terrestrial intelligence has been discovered. The holoships, asteroids converted to house communities over a million strong and...

Reynolds will be appearing on a BBC Radio Wales shows about science fiction tomorrow: Today's Tomorrows: Science Fiction, Series 25, Phil the Shelf - BBC Radio Wales

If you like your space opera set on a truly epic scale then this is for you! The book spans some six million years, though only focuses on the beginning and end of that period. The main characters have all been around for all of that period but, having spent much of it at relativistic speeds and...

Due for release in September, I saw this on Amzon and preordered. REVENGER is a brisk, distant future caper novel set in the rubble of a ruined solar system, and concerning itself with two sisters who want a little adventure in their lives, and get much, much more than they bargained for. This...

Century Rain Alastair Reynolds Ace, Jun 2005, $24.95, 512 pp. ISBN: 0441012906 Not long after the end of World War II, American jazz musician Wendell Floyd came to Paris to play. Though he had some gigs, he and his band partner Andre Custine earn their keep as private investigators. French...

The Prefect Alastair Reynolds Ace, Jun 2008, $25.95 ISBN 9780441015917 Panoply Prefect Tom Dreyfus is a highly regarded law enforcement official whose beat is the Glitter Band habitats that surround Yellowstone planet. His superior Jane Aumonier assigns him to investigate the shocking...