He has a Ph.D. in astronomy.
He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read physics and astronomy. Published in January 2019, it will soon be followed by BONE SILENCE.
He is a writer, known for, ‘Zima Blue’: Robert Valley on Directing Netflix’s ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Short, ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Review: Netflix’s ‘Heavy Metal’ For Post-Millennials, Alastair Reynolds, "Blue Remembered Earth", What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. Reynolds states that he has "tentative plans for three more Dreyfus titles, with an arc that would eventually take him beyond Yellowstone, and then back again. Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. In this universe, extraterrestrial sentience exists but is elusive, and interstellar travel is primarily undertaken by a class of vessel called a lighthugger which only approaches the speed of light (faster than light travel is possible, but it is so dangerous that no race uses it). His novella Troika made the shortlist for the 2011 Hugo Awards. For the Scottish football player, see, Essays, reporting and other contributions, European Space Research and Technology Centre, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world', "An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds", http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2017/07/elysium-fire-and-new-title-for-prefect.html, Blog posting from Reynolds personal website Teahouse on the Tracks, "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2008 Seiun Awards", "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award", "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award", "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award", "On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children): Amazon.co.uk: Alastair Reynolds: Books", Alastair Reynolds – On the Steel Breeze cover art reveal, "Alastair Reynolds – Poseidon's Wake – Orion Publishing Group", "Spirey and the Queen – a novelette by Alastair Reynolds", "A Spy in Europa – a short story by Alastair Reynolds", "The Lowest Heaven anthology table of contents announced", Personal Blog, Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon, An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alastair_Reynolds&oldid=983159245, Articles containing potentially dated statements from January 2012, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2011, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Digital to Analogue" – Originally published in, "Spirey and the Queen" – Originally published in, "Angels of Ashes" – Originally published in, "The Real Story" – Originally published in, "Beyond the Aquila Rift" – Originally published in, "Signal to Noise" – Originally published in, "Cardiff Afterlife" – Originally published in the reprint of, "Understanding Space and Time" – Originally published in a limited edition of 400 copies for the, "Minla's Flowers" – Originally published in, "Great Wall of Mars" – Originally published in, "Grafenwalder's Bestiary" – Originally published in, "Dilation Sleep" – Originally published in, "A Spy in Europa" – Originally published in, "Galactic North" – Originally published in, "Nunivak Snowflakes" – Originally published in, "Byrd Land Six" – Originally published in, "On the Oodnadatta" – Originally published in, "Feeling Rejected" – Originally published in the journal, "Tiger, Burning" – Originally published in, "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter" – Originally published in, "The Star-Surgeon's Apprentice" – Originally published in, "The Receivers" – Originally published in, "Great Wall of Mars" – previously collected in, "Beyond the Aquila Rift" – previously collected in, "Minla's Flowers" – previously collected in, "The Star Surgeon's Apprentice" – previously collected in, "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter" – previously collected in, "The Last Log of the Lachrimosa" – originally published in, "The Water Thief" – originally published in.
Alastair Reynolds, Peter Ellis and James Christie.
Reynolds states that he has "tentative plans for three more Dreyfus titles, with an arc that would eventually take him beyond Yellowstone, and then back again. Revelation Space Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. Terminal World, published in March 2010 was described by Reynolds as "a kind of steampunk-tinged planetary romance, set in the distant future". [21], On 10 March 2019 Alastair Reynolds announced that his short stories "Zima Blue" and "Beyond the Aquila Rift" had been adapted as part of Netflix's animated anthology Love, Death & Robots. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space, while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected. There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the European Space Agency, until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time.
[2] In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France).
Fermi's paradox is explained as resulting from the activities of an inorganic alien race referred to by its victims as the Inhibitors, which exterminates sentient races if they proceed above a certain level of technology. Reynolds's previous protagonists started out fully absorbed in the exoticisms of the future setting and his previous Revelation Space works have several interlinked story threads, not necessarily contemporaneous.
He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera.
Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. It contains an alternative interpretation of the Fermi paradox: intelligent sentient life in this universe is extremely scarce. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer.
He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he read physics and astronomy. 290 He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he read physics and astronomy.
[17] His novella Troika made the shortlist[18] for the 2011 Hugo Awards. The Revelation Space series includes five novels, two novellas, and eight short stories set over a span of several centuries, spanning approximately 2200 to 40 000, although the novels are all set in a 300 year period spanning from 2427 to 2727. According to Alastair himself, no sequel will ever be made on Century Rain. Reynolds described it as "Six million years in the future, starfaring clones, tensions between human and robot metacivilisations, King Crimson jokes. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland. Also, Google Play presents Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, and Peter F. Hamilton, Live discussion with Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, and Peter F. Hamilton, 27 September 2012, Imaginales 2013 Entretien avec Alastair Reynolds, Interview d'Alastair Reynolds aux Imaginales, Author Spotlight Alastair Reynolds - Sword & Laser, Geekopolis 2015 interview de Alastair Reynolds pour Actusf, Interview with Alastair Reynolds at Geekopolis 2015.
He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Alastair Reynolds was born on March 13, 1966 in Barry, Wales.
He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. "The Manastodon Broadcasts" – Originally published in, "Ascension Day" – Originally published in, "A Map of Mercury" – Originally published in, "Wrecking Party" – Originally published in, "Sad Kapteyn" – Originally published online by the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, "A Murmuration" – Originally published in, "Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee" - Originally published in, "Open and Shut" – Published online by Gollancz (January 2018) (a, This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 16:08.
[19][20] His Novel Revenger received the 2017 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book. Revelation Space book. Great Wall of Mars – (2205, published 2000) – short story, published in Galactic North 2. As of 2011 he has published over forty shorter works and nine novels. ), ( He is an interesting author since he used to be a space scientist and now is a full-time writer, even though for a time the two activities were running parallel.
An Interview with Alastair Reynolds by John Berlyne, An Interview with Alastair Reynolds by Anthony Brockway, Aberrant Dreams magazine - An Interview with Alastair Reynolds, SFFWorld - Interview with Alastair Reynolds, 'No one pointed a gun at my head and said, become a science fiction writer', Alastair Reynolds: 'I've been called the high priest of gothic miserablism', Episode 73: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Alastair Reynolds, A 2014 Interview with Alastair Reynolds, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Episode 32 - Interview with Alastair Reynolds, LocusMag.com - Paul Di Filippo reviews Alastair Reynolds, Episode 284: Alastair Reynolds, Revenger and the Far, Far Future, An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds on Returning to Revelation Space in Elysium Fire, https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds?oldid=6699. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. [4], In June 2009 Reynolds signed a new deal, worth £1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years.[7].
His works are hard science fiction veiled behind space opera and noir toned stories, and reflect his professional expertise with physics and astronomy, included by extrapolating future technologies in terms that are consistent, for the most part, with current science.
As of 2011[update] he has published over forty shorter works and nine novels.
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Reynolds's previous protagonists started out fully absorbed in the exoticisms of the future setting and his previous Revelation Space works have several interlinked story threads, not necessarily contemporaneous.
Often the protagonists from one work belong to a group that is regarded with suspicion or enmity by the protagonists of another work. I went into own personal lockdown about a week before the government’s announcement, and my wife and I have been isolating as well as we can ever since. Select the department you want to search in. [16] In 2010, he won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his short story "The Fixation".
According to Alastair himself, no sequel will ever be made on Century Rain. Read 2 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers…
The trilogy consisting of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap (the Inhibitor trilogy)[1] deals with humanity coming to the attention of the Inhibitors and the resultant war between them.
Reynolds has said he prefers to keep the science in his books to what he personally believes will be possible, and he does not believe faster-than-light travel will ever be possible, but that he adopts science he believes will be impossible when it is necessary for the story.
Century Rain also departs substantially from Reynolds's previous works, both in having a protagonist who is much closer to the perspective of our real world (in fact he is from a version of our past), serving as a proxy for the reader in confronting the unfamiliarity of the advanced science fiction aspects and in having a much more linear storytelling process. ), Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space, while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected.
Please try your request again later. While a great deal of science fiction reflects either very optimistic or dystopian visions of the human future, Reynolds's future worlds are notable in that human societies have not departed to either positive or negative extremes, but instead are similar to those of today in terms of moral ambiguity and a mixture of cruelty and decency, corruption and opportunity, despite their technology being dramatically advanced. "[4] Reynolds states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the House of Suns setting to write a sequel. .
Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice.