Alastair Reynolds Archives

Machine Vendetta (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies 3) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).

One advantage of creating a unique setting for stories is the freedom to delve into the situation’s history, economics, and

Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing

The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no

Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored

There are two schools of thought regarding space travel in fiction. One is to stick to the science as we

I have found all of Alastair Reynolds’ ‘Revelation Space’ books and short stories to be wonderfully atmospheric and perpetually gripping

‘Slow Bullets’ is the second of Alastair Reynolds’ novellas I’ve read recently, the other being ‘The Iron Tactician’ and, like

I haven’t read any of Alastair Reynolds’ previous stories about interplanetary traveller Merlin, but in ‘The Iron Tactician’ we have

The trilogy is a strange creature and is constantly evolving. The original concept was to have three books all telling