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Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The idea of generation ships has been around since before at least 1918, when physicist and rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published ‘The…
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March 2026
September 2024
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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 politics. The only…
August 2024
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Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
There is a lot of pleasure in reconnecting with old friends and places. Alastair Reynolds has set a number of novels in and…
June 2024
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Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
It always seems like a strange decision to change the title of a book, even if it is being reissued ten years after…
May 2022
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Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing adventure ‘Eversion’, which…
August 2021
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Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space book 7) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no exception. ‘Inhibitor Phase’…
April 2020
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Bone Silence (Revenger trilogy book 3) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored the problems of…
December 2019
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Shadow Captain (Revenger series book 2) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
There are two schools of thought regarding space travel in fiction. One is to stick to the science as we know it and…
January 2018
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Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
I have found all of Alastair Reynolds’ ‘Revelation Space’ books and short stories to be wonderfully atmospheric and perpetually gripping and, out of…
March 2017
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Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
‘Slow Bullets’ is the second of Alastair Reynolds’ novellas I’ve read recently, the other being ‘The Iron Tactician’ and, like that book, the…
February 2017
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Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (book review)
The majority of Science Fiction writers are usually content to populate the galaxy of their novels with standard star systems of planets orbiting…
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The Iron Tactician by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
I haven’t read any of Alastair Reynolds’ previous stories about interplanetary traveller Merlin, but in ‘The Iron Tactician’ we have a novella of…