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Fred Saberhagen's 1963 killer machines became one of the grimmest answers to the Fermi Paradox. We follow the Berserker hypothesis from pulp magazine…
The idea of generation ships has been around since before at least 1918, when physicist and rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published ‘The…
One advantage of creating a unique setting for stories is the freedom to delve into the situation’s history, economics, and politics. The only…
There is a lot of pleasure in reconnecting with old friends and places. Alastair Reynolds has set a number of novels in and…
It always seems like a strange decision to change the title of a book, even if it is being reissued ten years after…
Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing adventure ‘Eversion’, which…
The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no exception. ‘Inhibitor Phase’…
Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored the problems of…
There are two schools of thought regarding space travel in fiction. One is to stick to the science as we know it and…
I have found all of Alastair Reynolds’ ‘Revelation Space’ books and short stories to be wonderfully atmospheric and perpetually gripping and, out of…
‘Slow Bullets’ is the second of Alastair Reynolds’ novellas I’ve read recently, the other being ‘The Iron Tactician’ and, like that book, the…
The majority of Science Fiction writers are usually content to populate the galaxy of their novels with standard star systems of planets orbiting…
