beyond the aquila rift the best of alastair reynolds

‘Falcon, this is not a war – it never was – any mere than spring wages war on winter.Īnd we will replace you, as spring replaces winter…’

2014 Vincent: interplanetary probe, media superstar. 2012 A rock sculptor works on Triton with a dark secret in their past. Spanning more than fifteen years, the book also collects more recent stories likeĮnvironmental SF tale ‘The Water Thief’, powerful and moving YA ‘The Old Man and the Martian Sea’īeyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds has something for every reader of science fiction,Īnd easily meets the challenge of delivering stories that are the hardest of hard science fiction and great entertainment.Ĭontents Great Wall of Mars. ‘Revelation Space’ universe alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories. In a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective which features the very best stories from the The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered here, Locus, Italia, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards, and have won the Seiun and Sidewise Awards. His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial,

I don’t think the “twist” at the end adds much.Īlastair Reynolds is one of the best and most beloved writers of science fiction and space opera working today.Ī brilliant novelist, he is also one of our best writers of short fiction. With several real dilemmas about what to do about the situation the shipmates find themselves in,Īlong with interesting ways of tackling them. She takes charge before a new war breaks out,Īnd the crew and prisoners gradually realise something dreadful has happened to them all.Īnd then Scur discovers her torturer is also on board… Scur hopes for rescue, but finds herself wakening on a prison ship,įull of hibernating war criminals from both sides. Scur is a soldier, captured at the end of a war by a psychopathic enemy who decides to torture her to death.īut they are interrupted before he can complete his task.

The stakes are much higher than just her own life. They can’t find and a planet they don’t recognize. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to worlds The ship’s dying computer is waking its passengers,Ĭombatants from both sides of the war forced into hibernation. When Scur revives, she finds herself aboard a prisoner transport vessel The survival of civilization depends on one woman-and her archenemyĪ vast conflict between hundreds of worlds appears to be finally at an end.īut even as the cease-fire takes effect, a conscripted soldier is captured byĪ renegade war criminal and left for dead.

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Beyond the aquila rift the best of alastair reynolds