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Revelation Space

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Orion
Release Date	: 2008-12
ISBN 10	: 0575083093
Pages	: 567 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (93 users)

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Download or read book Revelation Space written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a wingest Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthloess scientist Dan Sylveste, it's more than merelty intellectual curiosity - and he will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than even Syveste imagines . . . REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges acrioss the known and unknown universe . . . towards the most terrifying of destinations.

Redemption Ark

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2008-12
ISBN 10	: 0575083107
Pages	: 647 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Redemption Ark written by Alastair Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed! Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race . . . and awakened the Inhibitors. On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. This is British SF at its absolute best.

Inhibitor Phase

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2021-10-12
ISBN 10	: 0316462764
Pages	: 496 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (64 users)

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Download or read book Inhibitor Phase written by Alastair Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar new science fiction adventure from the author who redefined space opera, set in his bestselling Revelation Space universe. For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-pocked world called Michaelmas. Beyond their solar system lie the ruins of human interstellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitely patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors. One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times, and given them hope against the wolves: Miguel de Ruyter. When a lone human ship blunders into their system, and threatens to lead the wolves to Michaelmas, de Ruyter embarks on a desperate, near-suicide mission to prevent catastrophe. But an encounter with a refugee from the ship--the enigmatic woman who calls herself only Glass--leads to de Ruyter's world being turned upside down.

The Revelation Space eBook Collection

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2011-10-20
ISBN 10	: 9780575129085
Pages	: 2800 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book The Revelation Space eBook Collection written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 2800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All seven books set in the REVELATION SPACE universe, now collected in one bundle Contains seven fantastic novels: REVELATION SPACE, CHASM CITY, REDEMPTION ARK, ABSOLUTION GAP, THE PREFECT, DIAMOND DOGS & TURQUOISE DAYS and GALACTIC NORTH

Revelation Space

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2002-05-28
ISBN 10	: 9781440673795
Pages	: 592 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (737 users)

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Download or read book Revelation Space written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly-acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe—a debut that has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself... “[A] TOUR DE FORCE…RAVISHINGLY INVENTIVE.”—Publishers Weekly Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason—and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself—could be irrevocably altered...

Mammoth Books presents Merlin's Gun

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2012-07-26
ISBN 10	: 9781472103468
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents Merlin's Gun written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sora's swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said to have stopped the previous war. Sora is sceptical, though, for Merlin has been missing for ten thousand years, yet he has not aged a day. As the current war between aliens and humans intensifies, the need to find this weapon becomes unquestionably urgent. They must find the gun before the enemy does and incinerates them. Can their quest to save humanity and end the war be achieved with Merlin's gun?

House of Suns

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Orion
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 0575077174
Pages	: 473 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (74 users)

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Download or read book House of Suns written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of "The Prefect." Reynolds's brand of space opera continues to be engaging and awe-inspiring. Big-scale ideas; packed with sense of wonder; great world building; backed up by believable science.--"SF Signal."

Zima Blue and Other Stories

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Orion
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015080836201
Pages	: 424 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book Zima Blue and Other Stories written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orion. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds

The Best of Alastair Reynolds

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Gollancz
Release Date	: 2017-06-15
ISBN 10	: 1473216362
Pages	: 784 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book The Best of Alastair Reynolds written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers

Space and Beyond

Author	: Gary Westfahl
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0313308462
Pages	: 207 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book Space and Beyond written by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the exploration of space has long preoccupied authors and filmmakers, the development of an actual space program, discoveries about the true nature of space, and critical reconsiderations of America's frontier experiences have challenged and complicated conventional portrayals of humans in space. This volume reexamines the themes of space and the frontier in science fiction in light of recent scientific and literary developments. Included are the observations of noted science fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, James Gunn, and Jack Williamson, along with contributions from leading scholars in the field.

Revenger

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	: Orbit
Release Date	: 2017-02-28
ISBN 10	: 0316555568
Pages	: 464 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (68 users)

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Download or read book Revenger written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb science fiction adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artifacts and revenge. The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them... Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous. Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore's crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen in particular. Revenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism... and of vengeance...

Beyond the Aquila Rift

Author	: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2016-06-30
ISBN 10	: 1596067667
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (67 users)

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Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation

Author	: Robyn J. Whitaker
Publisher	: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date	: 2015-11-13
ISBN 10	: 3161539788
Pages	: 308 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation written by Robyn J. Whitaker and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn. J. Whitaker interprets the Book of Revelation within the context of ancient rhetoric and religion. She argues that the author of Revelation uses a popular rhetorical tool, ekphrasis, to paint word-pictures of God that compete with material images to both critique image-making and simultaneously make an absent God present.

The Medusa Chronicles

Author	: Stephen Baxter
Publisher	: Gallery / Saga Press
Release Date	: 2017-08-08
ISBN 10	: 9781481479684
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (796 users)

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Download or read book The Medusa Chronicles written by Stephen Baxter and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award–winning novella “A Meeting with Medusa,” this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter—and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instead, he has been changed into an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable. With permission from the Clarke Estate, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds continue this beloved writer’s enduring vision and have created a fresh story for new readers. The Medusa Chronicles charts Falcon’s journey through the centuries granted by his new body, but always back to mysteries of Jupiter and the changing interaction between humanity and the universe. A compelling read full of incredible action right from the beginning, this is a modern classic in the spirit of 2001 and The Martian.

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories

Author	: Reynolds, Alastair
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2021-10-31
ISBN 10	: 1645240134
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Belladonna Nights and Other Stories written by Reynolds, Alastair and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Reynolds has continued to publish short fiction throughout the thirty-odd years of his professional career. This fourth collection gathers material mostly written by the former space scientist in the last decade, even as a number of stories--such as the title piece, set in the universe of House of Suns--revisit earlier environments. The scope of settings is wide, ranging from the contemporaneous Earth to the near future and out to the furthest realms of the galaxy, and taking in such diverse topics as the perils of immortality, cybernetic encounters in the Wild West, uncanny skateboard parks and the flocking behaviour of birds. There is horror here, but also hope--and not a little black humour. The collection includes "Open and Shut," "Night Passage," and "Plague Music," a long, previously unpublished story, all three set in the Revelation Space universe.

Cyber Security and the Politics of Time

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Publisher	:
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9781107109421
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (94 users)

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

Author	: Gardner Dozois
Publisher	: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date	: 2006-07-11
ISBN 10	: 9781429993456
Pages	: 704 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (934 users)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as: "Beyond the Aquila Rift": Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before---or so we think. "Comber": Our world is an ever-changing one, and award-winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet's fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style. "Audubon in Atlantis": In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct. The twenty-nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelley, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Moles, Derryl Murphy, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Peter Watts, Liz Williams, and Gene Wolfe. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.