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First British Edition Gollancz (2007)

The Prefect
The mastersinger of the space opera returns to the world of Revelation Space, his international bestseller.
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. These days, his job is his life.
A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn’t now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny.
Before long Dreyfus and his team are fighting against something worse than tyranny ... and Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it.
The Prefect: a rollercoaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of Revelation Space; an interstellar thriller where nothing - and no one - is what they seem ...
Praise for Alistair Reynolds
Century Rain
‘Part noir time-travel, part alternate history and part hard SF thriller, with aliens and augmented humans, Century Rain is a darkly brilliant love story set in worlds we think we know but don’t’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Guardian
‘An engrossing blend of soft and hard science fiction themes, this is an exceedingly readable, not to mention riveting novel ... a thrilling - literally and generically - read. It is Reynolds’ skill in crafting convincing characters and nail-biting scenarios that should be given due credit… a genuinely great book ... leaves you wishing that more science fiction was this good’ Dream
‘An intelligent space opera whose factional wars between the survivors of a dead earth have an awful ideological plausibility’ Time Out
‘Across several settings, Century Rain juggles the apparently clashing notions of high-concept Science Fiction, political space war and film noir quite brilliantly ... but what’s impressive is the way Reynolds keeps the story focused and page-turning despite this wide-ranging canvas, while throwing in almost as plot devices, concepts that would be worthy of an entire book elsewhere’ Starburst
Revelation Space
‘Ravishingly inventive ... Reynolds’ vision of a future dominated by artificial intelligence trembles with the ultimate cold of the dark between the stars’ Publishers Weekly
Chasm City
‘Reynolds is on fire’ Booklist
‘Reynolds’ second novel is even more fun than the first; full of action, world-building, myth-making, and all the plot surprises the author can concoct’ Asimov’s
Redemption Ark
‘It’s rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like ‘revelation’ and ‘redemption’. Reynolds pulls it off’ Publishers Weekly
Absolution Gap
‘Alastair Reynolds continues his rise to the top of British SF’ The Guardian
‘Absolution Gap is a first-rate work of science fiction, a thoroughly modern space opera full of dangers and marvels to match’ TheSFSite.com

First British Edition Gollancz (2006)

Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Galactic North
Centuries from now, humanity, as factional and fractious as ever, has spread throughout the solar system and beyond, to the worlds around the nearest stars. Technology means powerful new tools, but with those advances come lethal risks. The Demarchists and Conjoiners fight wars over the basic right to augment human intelligence beyond its natural limits. The nervous, paranoid Ultras crew the vast lighthugger starships that bind these squabbling colonies together. The hyperpigs try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer ... and everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilisations that the explorers keep finding out beyond the margins of settled space - because who’s to say that humanity won’t be next?
Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds’ first collection: eight novellas and short stories, three brand-new for this volume; eight harrowing glimpses into the dark and turbulent universe of Revelation Space.
Alastair Reynolds, space opera’s current Janatek’ Telegraph
`He has a genius for big-concept SF Publishers Weekly
‘Gothic SF with gore as Reynolds ensures his taut narratives grip from the first sentence’ SFX
`Dark, gothic and graphic, with tightly composed narratives full of shocks and jaw-dropping moments’ BBC Focus

First British Edition Gollancz (2005)

Pushing Ice
‘We push ice. It’s what we do’
By 2057 the commercial exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships. They call it pushing ice.
Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper are nearing the end of their current mission cycle and desperate for some much-needed rest and relaxation - until startling news from Saturn arrives. Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the Solar System at high speed.
As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place, but some kind of machine, and it’s now headed towards a fuzzily glimpsed artefact in the star system Spica, two hundred and sixty light-years away. Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to catch up and shadow it for the few vital days before it falls for ever out of reach.
Bella agrees to accept the mission, and in doing so sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny, a course that will test friendship and loyalty to the limits: for Janus has many surprises in store - and not all of them are welcome.
Pushing Ice is a trademark Alastair Reynolds novel: a deep-space adventure story with a scope as big as the Galaxy itself.

First British Edition Gollancz (2004)

Paperback - Gollancz (2005)

Century Rain
Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong. Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise is invaluable.
Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system. Auger’s faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?
Auger’s task - apart from probing the nature of this alternate world - is to recover the lost property of a murdered agent before it falls into the wrong hands. But the dead agent had stumbled onto something that could change not only Auger’s present, but Earth’s past as well.
With time running out, Auger retraces the dead agent’s footsteps across a Europe that isn’t quite the one in the history books. Shadowed by forces that would rather see her dead, the last thing she needs is the attention of a struggling private detective trying to close one last case ...
Century Rain is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, Century Rain is something altogether stranger.
‘Alastair Reynolds occupies the same frenzied imaginative space as Philip K. Dick or A.E. Van Vogt’ M John Harrison in the Guardian
‘He is taking the stuff of space opera and making it into something new . . the most exciting space opera writer working today’ Locus
‘Reynolds’s narrative is truly breathtaking in scope and intricate in detail, making him a mastersinger of the space opera’ The Times
Praise for Revelation Space:
`He fills the book with a sense of wonder ... quite possibly the space opera of 2000’ Locus
`The span here is mind-boggling ... cosmos-spanning concepts - a breathtaking journey’ Good Book Guide
`Hard SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. A sparkling SF debut’ David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
‘Gonzo cybergoth space opera: intensely compelling: darkly intelligent: hugely ambitious’ Paul J McAuley, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award
‘One of the most important and exciting books of the year’ sfrevu.com
Praise for Chasm City:
`The best thing Reynolds has done ... in the end, it is a joy’ John Clute, scifi.com ‘A superb hard SF thriller by one of Britain’s hottest young authors’ sfrevu.com
‘A perfect synthesis of character-driven story with mind-boggling alien societies’ lineone.net
Praise for Absolution Gap:
‘Revelation, Redemption, Absolution ... Reynolds provides them all’ John Courtenay Grimwood in the Guardian
‘Space opera on a mind-boggling scale .. . a terrific read’ SFX
‘Spaces opera doesn’t get any better. Both a triumphant conclusion to Reynolds’s Inhibitors trilogy and his best novel to date’ Dreamwatch

First British Edition Gollancz (2003)

Absolution Gap
Winner of the British Science Fiction Award
It’s time for humanity to meet its unmaker ...
Humanity has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war: you might think it’s time for a few decades of peace and quiet.
No such luck: for now there is a new threat, one that could mean extinction for the entire species. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest ‘emergent’ intelligence.
Fleeing the first wave of machines, a ragtag group of refugees headed by the war veteran Clavain waits anxiously for the next phase of the cull. But with Clavain sunk deep in despondency, the actual leadership falls to Scorpio, the product of a flawed experiment in genetic engineering. Though Scorpio has every reason to hate humanity, he believes he has put his grudges - along with his criminal past - behind him.
Then an unexpected new element enters the colony: an avenging angel, a girl born in ice, gifted with both the power to lead humanity to safety and the ability to draw down mankind’s darkest enemy. Unwilling to resist her charismatic leadership - for now - Scorpio watches as his people are led towards Hela, an apparently insignificant moon light-years away.
On Hela, where vast travelling cathedrals circle the world in endless procession, the witnessing of a miraculous event has given birth to an apocalyptic new religion.
And as the cathedrals crawl towards the treacherous fissure known as Absolution Gap, a dark and unsettling truth becomes apparent: to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much, much worse ...
Absolution Gap concludes the story of the Inhibitors told in Revelation Space and Redemption Ark.
'Reynolds's narrative is truly breathtaking in scope and intricate in detail, making him a mastersinger of the space opera' The Times

About The Author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.
Alastair Reynolds is a regular contributor to Interzone and has been published in New Worlds. Of his ‘Revelation Space’ series, Revelation Space was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science fiction Awards, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and his SF thriller Chasm City was winner of the British Science Fiction Award.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

The Prefect (Gollancz, 2007)

Galactic North (Gollancz, 2006) Gollancz Pbk Nov 07

Pushing Ice (Gollancz, 2005)

Century Rain (Gollancz, 2004) Gollancz Pbk Oct 05

Absolution Gap (Gollancz, 2003) Gollancz Pbk May 04

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Gollancz, 2003) Gollancz Pbk Oct 03

Redemption Ark (Gollancz, 2002) Gollancz Pbk May 03

Chasm City (Gollancz Pbk, 2002)

Revelation Space (Gollancz, 2000) Gollancz Pbk Aug 07