Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds I’ve been planning to read this series for many years, because Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross and Iain M. Banks are regularly mentioned at the forefront of the British Hard SF movement. Sure, there are many non-British well-known hard SF and space opera practitioners […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 3.5 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds Chasm City (2001) is the fourth Alastair Reynolds book I’ve read in his REVELATION SPACE series, though it is a stand-alone and a much better book. The main trilogy (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap) featured a lot of good hard SF world-building, but was heavily weighed down by clunky characters, […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 4.5 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds Redemption Ark (2002) is the follow-up to Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds’ debut novel and the second book in his REVELATION SPACE series of hard SF space opera in which highly-augmented human factions encounter implacable killer machines bent on exterminating sentient life. The first entry had elements of Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix, Frank […]
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Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds For years I’ve been planning to read Alastair Reynolds’ REVELATION SPACE series; I even own all the books in audio format. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. But when I got an audio copy of Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, a collection of two stand-alone novellas set […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds Absolution Gap (2003) is the third book in Alastair Reynolds’ REVELATION SPACE series of large-canvas hard SF in which post-human factions battle each other and implacable machines bent on exterminating sentient life. The series has elements of Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix, Frank Herbert’s Dune, Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Iain […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 2 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds The Prefect is the fifth Alastair Reynolds book I’ve read in his REVELATION SPACE series, though it is a stand-alone and set earlier in chronology than the other books. By the time of the main trilogy Revelation Space (2000), Redemption Ark (2002), and Absolution Gap (2003), the Glitter Band of 10,000 orbitals has […]
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Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds Elysium Fire (2018) is the sequel to Alastair Reynolds’ The Prefect (now renamed Aurora Rising to designate it as part of the PREFECT DREYFUS series), a complex and detailed police procedural set in the Glitter Band of his REVELATION SPACE series, set before the Melding Plague that destroyed the 10,000 […]
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Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds Having read all the full-length novels in Alastair Reynolds’ REVELATION SPACE series, I knew I’d eventually get to his shorter works set in the same dark and complex universe. The main novels are Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Chasm City, Absolution Gap, and The Prefect. Reynolds has produced a detailed future […]
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Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds Century Rain (2004) is the first novel Alastair Reynolds published outside of his REVELATION SPACE setting. It combines elements of noir, hard science fiction and time travel with a dash of romance. Reynolds also experimented with noir elements in Chasm City and The Prefect (which I think is one of his best novels). […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 3.5 | Alastair Reynolds | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds Pushing Ice (2005) is a standalone novel. It is not set in Alastair Reynolds’ REVELATION SPACE universe and as far as I can tell it is not related to any of his other works either. On his website, Reynolds mentions that there may one day be a sequel though. Pushing Ice is […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 3 | Alastair Reynolds | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds This is the first Alastair Reynolds’ book I’ve read not set in his REVELATION SPACE series, and many of his fans claim House of Suns (2008) is his best book. I’d have to say it is pretty impressive, dealing with deep time scales rarely seen for any but the […]
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Troika by Alastair Reynolds Troika is a stand-alone hard science fiction novella that was first published in the 2010 anthology Godlike Machines edited by Jonathan Strahan. In 2011 it was published on its own by Subterranean Press. The story is Alastair Reynolds’ take on the Big Dumb Object trope. In Reynolds’ future, Russia is the […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds Slow Bullets is the latest addition to Alastair Reynolds’ impressive body of work, a slim novella which he manages to fill with plausible far-future technology, interstellar war, and questions of identity and legacy. Scurelya “Scur” Timsuk Shunde is a soldier for the Peripheral Systems, which are at war with the […]
Read MoreJana Nyman´s rating: 4 | Alastair Reynolds | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds “If the Ness sisters had a brain cell between them, they’d be back in Mazarile, taking needlecraft lessons from a robot.” Sisters Adrana and Fura Ness have run away from home, joining the crew of a spaceship captained by a man named Rackamore. Their job on the ship is to use […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio, Locus Award, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds Shadow Captain (2019) is the second novel in Alastair Reynolds’ REVENGER series for young adults. You’ll need to read Revenger first, and this review will have some spoilers for that first book. It’s been three months since Revenger ended, and Adrana and Fura Ness are back together after Adrana was […]
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Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds Alastair Reynolds’ REVENGER series started off well enough with Revenger, which was entertaining, though, in my opinion, not deserving of its Locus Award for Best Young Adult novel. The sequel, Shadow Captain, a Locus Award finalist (but not winner) was a significant step down for the series. I was hoping […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 1.5 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds Alastair Reynolds’ Permafrost (2019), a finalist for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Novella, is billed as “a time-traveling climate fiction adventure.” It takes place in two timelines. In 2080, humanity seems to be coming to an end, mostly due to a lack of food. Valentina Lidova, an elderly Russian math […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Alastair Reynolds | Audio, Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
To the dismay of all lovers of great speculative short fiction, the Summer issue of Subterranean Magazine is its last. This magazine was notable not just for the quality of its fiction, but for its willingness to publish short fiction at the novelette and novella lengths. The Summer issue ably demonstrates just what we’re going […]
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