alastair reynolds beyond the aquila rift short story

*** Hideaway / Minla's Flowers / Merlin's Gun - Merlin is not actually very sympathetic for most of this mini-trilogy. *** Signal to Noise / Cardiff Afterlife - some clever tech, and a plot with echoes of Flowers for Algernon. When Reynolds opens his heart, his mind obeys and he produces lovely mini-masterpieces: Enola, Turquoise Days, Zima Blue and Weather. Note: The animated version is very good in 'Love, Death and Robots' from Netflix.Įxquisite, poignant, wonderful. Lovely story with a somewhat predictable but beautifully-realised plot. Mostly solid collection of stories here, with some true gems. When Reynolds opens his heart, his mind obeys and he produces lovely mini-masterpieces: Enola (here), Turquoise Days, Zima Blue (here) and Weather. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement.

I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels.

I loved every single page.I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel.

Alastair Reynolds is one of my very favourite authors, every book is a much-anticipated event, and withPoseidon's Wake he shows yet again why that is. A wonderful book and best that British SF has to offer at the moment Upcoming 4 Me Although a long book, with so much story to fit in there is a brevity to the text which makes it an easy read which can be enjoyed as a standalone even though it satisfactorily revisits and resolves the majority of the threads from the previous novels Geek Chocolate a well realised sci-fi universe, with plausible character SFF Reviews Having completed the trilogy I now want to return to its beginning and re-read. Poseidon's Wake is one of the best sci-fi novels of the year Sci-Fi Now his finest moment yet and a glorious conclusion of the trilogy.

A novel that works brilliantly as a space adventure and also reads, touchingly, almost as an atheist's reflection on why a kind of optimistic agnosticism may be a useful approach to finding contentment SFX It's grand, involving and full of light and wonder.

Alastair reynolds beyond the aquila rift short story