The hardback version of this book seems pretty hard to come by; they are going for very high prices used on Amazon,I didn't actually get the hard copy; I fortunately found the story in the "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 2008" anthology, where it is featured.This is a darker and mor...
I debated whether to write a review of Revelation Space on its own or wait until I finished the Revelation Space trilogy and write a single review of the whole story. This is a debate that goes on in my head any time I read a multi-book series and I haven't established a blanket policy one way o...
“I know you have the strength to do it. You’ve already shown me that a thousand times. Do it, friend, and end this.” “I can’t.”WAAAAH!! You stop that Alastair Reynolds! I read you for cool tech, quantum science, posthumans, and weird aliens. Tugging at my heartstrings is not within your purview!A...
Alastair Reynolds is like a sci-fi triple threat, big “SFnal ideas”, unpredictable plot, and well developed characters, all wrapped up in very readable narrative. After reading six books by him I now feel like I can always come back to him a “reliable author” for a good reading experience. One of...
While I'm still working through the audio of Redemption Ark I thought I might check out some of the Rev Space short stories he published earlier in this collection.I'm glad I decided to read these in publication order because there is some crossover between the stories as well as the the two shor...
INDIVIDUAL STORY THOUGHTS BELOW (so you can skip my review if you want)A while back I was toying with the silly notion that an author's short story collection is a bit like an album, and that the stories within are individual songs: varying in length, style and quality. While reading the collecti...