Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $24.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-441-01058-5
With this complex, thoughtful sequel to his highly praised Revelation Space
(2001), British author Reynolds confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance. Spreading from star to star, humanity has split into...
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Alastair Reynolds. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (120p) ISBN 978-1-59606-376-1
Powerfully demonstrating that less can be more, hard science fiction master Reynolds (Terminal World) has crafted a short but effective first contact novella. The layered narrative effectively draws the reader in by raising numerous questions....
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $14.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-55556-2
This space adventure from lauded SF author Reynolds is an expert mix of the fantastical and horrific. The time is the very far future, and humankind has spread through a vastly wonderful but daunting universe. Arafura Ness, on the cusp of adulthood,
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-55567-8
Reynolds has been building his Revelation Space universe for decades in a series of stories and novels; this one is a direct sequel to 2007’s The Prefect, reprinted in 2017 as Aurora Rising, and it’s even fresher and smarter than its predecessors....
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $15.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-55570-8
More a continuation of 2016’s Revenger than a sequel, this wonderfully complicated, fascinating space opera carries on the adventures of teen sisters Adrana and Arafura Ness, who find themselves over their heads in deep space intrigue. In the...
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $16.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-46276-1
A human ship passing through the Michaelmas system threatens to draw Inhibitors, a ruthless alien threat, to the hidden community of Sun Hollow in this uneven standalone adventure set in Reynolds’s Revelation Space universe (last visited in Chasm...
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $17.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-46282-2
Much of the fun in this vigorous space opera from Reynolds (Terminal World) comes from figuring out the tricks of the twisty plot. Narrator Silas Coade, an anxious young assistant surgeon, starts the novel on a little sloop sailing up the coast of...
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Alastair Reynolds. Orbit, $19.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-46284-6
Reynolds returns to his Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies universe (after Elysium Fire) for a touching and spectacularly intricate sequel that also functions well as a standalone. Dreyfus is a seasoned prefect of Panoply, the agency tasked with...
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Edited by Dave McKean and William Schafer. Subterranean, $40 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-825-4
McKean’s storied career as an illustrator, comics creator, and fine artist is the basis for this magnificent anthology, which contains 12 stories inspired by specific McKean images (all of which are included), as well as a short McKean comic. High...
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Simon Reynolds, Author, Alastair Reynolds, Author Little Brown and Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-74111-8
""I finally grasped viscerally why the music was made the way it was; how certain tingly textures goosepimpled your skin and particular oscillator riffs triggered the E-rush.... Finally, I understood ecstasy as a sonic science. And it became even...
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Donald Martin Reynolds, Author, Alastair Reynolds, Author John Wiley & Sons $55 (408p) ISBN 978-0-471-01439-3
This 1984 guide was revised to touch on changes to the city's skyline over the past decade. (June)
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Michael D. Reynolds, Author, Alastair Reynolds, Author . Stackpole $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8117-2755-6
Traveling at 44 miles per second, ranging in size from dust particle to fist-sized chunks, burning up 50 to 75 miles above the earth and lasting half a second, meteors are fast, hot and out of control. Reynolds, executive director of Oakland,...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $23.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-441-00912-1
In this worthy follow-up to his well-received first novel, Revelation Space
(2001), an especially intelligent far-future foray, British author Reynolds transmutes space opera into a noirish, baroque, picaresque mystery tale. Honor requires that...
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Alastair Reynolds. Ace, $26.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-425-25679-4
The conclusion of Reynolds's Poseidon's Children trilogy (after On the Steel Breeze), set in the 27th century, effectively resolves the major story lines while leaving room open for a return to this complex universe. Ndege Akinya carries the guilt...
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Alastair Reynolds. Tachyon (Legato, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-193-0
An interstellar war has just come to an end, but some violence-loving soldiers are reluctant to stand down. Scur, separated from her unit, is captured and tortured by the sadistic Orvin. After passing out, she awakens from suspended animation to...
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Alastair Reynolds. Ace, $26.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-425-25678-7
Reynolds’s depth of imagination, adeptness with creating multi-dimensional characters, and brisk pacing are again in evidence in his second Poseidon’s Children SF novel. Chiku Akinya was born on the Moon and grew up during a tranquil time in human...
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Alastair Reynolds. Ace, $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-441-02071-3
Reynolds (Terminal World) cements his status as one of the preeminent writers of hard SF with this gripping and intelligent kickoff to the three-book Poseidon’s Children sequence. It’s 2161, and Africa is the Earth’s “dominant economic and...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author Ace Books $25.95 (457p) ISBN 978-0-441-01401-9
As this spectacular, large-scale space opera opens, Janus, a moon of Saturn, now revealed as an alien artifact, has suddenly left orbit and headed for interstellar space. The Rockhopper, a comet miner commanded by Capt. Bella Lind, is the only...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Subterranean $35 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59606-259-7
Larger-than-life characters, awesome extraterrestrial settings and spectacular technology fill these two novellas, packaged back to back in the manner of the old Ace Doubles. In the powerful “Thousandth Night,” starfaring posthumans...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $26.95 (473p) ISBN 978-0-441-01717-1
Reynolds (The Prefect
) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella “Thousandth Night†in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Subterranean $35 (85p) ISBN 978-1-59606-184-2
Reynolds (The Prefect
) is a master of fitting large-scale space opera into just a few pages, and this novella is no exception. The Mongols, led by Genghis Khan, conquered Earth a thousand years ago and now rule an interstellar civilization via a...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $25.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-441-01591-7
The seventh novel set in Reynolds's Revelation Space milieu (most recently encountered in his 2007 collection Galactic North
) is a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study. One of the 10,000 colony habitats of...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $24.95 (506p) ISBN 978-0-441-01290-9
In his latest SF novel, Reynolds (Absolution Gap
) creates yet another quirky, noirish vision of humanity's future. Three centuries from now, a technologically induced catastrophe, the Nanocaust, makes Earth uninhabitable. Two versions of...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-441-01238-1
Astronomer Reynolds's two far-future space exploration novellas, set in his Revelation Space universe (Chasm City
, etc.), confirm his mastery of noir
SF. Antihero Richard Swift of "Diamond Dogs" joins Mephistophelian Roland Childe's
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $24.95 (565p) ISBN 978-0-441-01158-2
The final volume in British author Reynolds's SF trilogy that began with Revelation Space
(2001) fulfills all the staggering promise of the earlier books, and then some. The world Hela, an airless moon of the gas giant Haldora, is remarkable...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author . Ace $23.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-441-00835-3
This distant-past/far-future, hard sci-fi tour de force probes a galaxy-wide enigma: why does spacefaring humanity encounter so few remnants of intelligent life? Excavating the 900,000-year-old Amarantin civilization on its home world, Resurgam,...
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Alastair Reynolds, Author, Paul J. McAuley, Introduction by . Night Shade $26.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59780-058-7
This solid collection of 10 stories spanning the galaxies and the career of British SF author Reynolds (Pushing Ice
) demonstrates that his pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing. Not that stars don't get pulverized when one
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Edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer. Subterranean, $45 (784p) ISBN 978-1-59606-766-0
This collection of 18 long and short stories by Reynolds (the Poseidon’s Children series), one of the most gifted hard SF writers working today, displays his facility for building fascinating settings and integrating romance and mystery plots into...
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Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. Saga, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7967-7
Two of the most acclaimed contemporary hard SF writers successfully team up in this ambitious epic space opera, spanning almost 800 years, that expands the themes raised by Arthur C. Clarke’s classic 1971 novella, A Meeting with Medusa. Clarke’s...
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