Tag: Alastair Reynolds

It’s another bad day in the Glitter Band, and although with 10,000 habitats to supervise it’s always going to be a bad day somewhere, this is worse: a

Along the fjords of Norway the sailing vessel Demeter heads north under the nominal command of Captain Van Vught, an expedition financed and guided by the ambitious and

It could be argued that it was an act of kindness for Miguel de Ruyter to rescue the sole survivor of the unknown spaceship which exploded even as

It is the year 2080 and Valentina Lidova is a teacher for what will be the last generation on the dying planet Earth in the wake of the

Bosa Sennen is dead; long live Bosa Sennen and all who sail under her catchcloth, her former vessel known variously as Dame Scarlet or Nightjammer now renamed Revenger

While the year 2001 will forever be synonymous with the worlds and imagination of Sir Arthur C Clarke, it was the year 2017 which saw the centenary of

“We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future

It’s been eighteen years since Alastair Reynolds’ first novel set in Revelation Space was released, though earlier short stories had introduced that universe, and it has remained his

If there is one thing Merlin cannot help but do, it is meddle. He has a purpose, a task, albeit one which is abstract: to find a legendary

On the evening of Friday 20th January at Edinburgh’s Blackwell’s Bookshop on South Bridge, prolific science fiction author Stephen Baxter took time out from working on his current