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Alastair Reynolds

Born

in Barry, Wales, The United Kingdom

March 13, 1966

Website

http://www.alastairreynolds.com/

Genre

Science Fiction

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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. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. 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 was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to ...more

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Alastair Reynolds’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 407,668 ratings · 26,291 reviews · 315 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 63,273 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of Suns 4.24 avg rating — 33,738 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redemption Ark (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2) by Alastair Reynolds, Chris Moore (Illustration) 4.16 avg rating — 33,126 ratings — published 2002 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasm City 4.13 avg rating — 28,127 ratings — published 2001 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolution Gap (The Inhibitor Sequence, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 25,686 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pushing Ice 4.07 avg rating — 23,226 ratings — published 2005 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 22,150 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revenger (Revenger #1) 3.82 avg rating — 13,607 ratings — published 2016 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,590 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Century Rain 3.95 avg rating — 12,346 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space (8 books)
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The Inhibitor Sequence (4 books)
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4.05 avg rating — 129,506 ratings

House of Suns (2 books)
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4.24 avg rating — 34,814 ratings

Prefect Dreyfus Emergency (3 books)
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4.15 avg rating — 34,883 ratings

Poseidon's Children (3 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 23,425 ratings

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“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

tags: politics, sf, social-commentary

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“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

tags: caffeine, coffee

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“It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

tags: philosophy-of-life, politics, social-commentary

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Polls

4th Quarter 2018 - SciFi #1

Rosewater by Tade Thompson, 432p

6 votes, 26.1%

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White, 480p

6 votes, 26.1%

Darknet by Matthew Mather, 371p

4 votes, 17.4%

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton, 768p

3 votes, 13.0%

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn, 427p (Oct)

2 votes, 8.7%

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, 704p

1 vote, 4.3%

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, 502p

1 vote, 4.3%

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, 624p

0 votes, 0.0%

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, 351p

0 votes, 0.0%

23 total votes

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