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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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Average rating: 4.03 · 417,355 ratings · 27,170 reviews · 329 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 64,495 ratings — published 2000 — 63 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 — 34,933 ratings — published 2008 — 42 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 — 33,647 ratings — published 2002 — 47 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 — 28,564 ratings — published 2001 — 47 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 — 26,257 ratings — published 2003 — 46 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 — 23,998 ratings — published 2005 — 33 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 — 22,485 ratings — published 2007 — 41 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) 3.81 avg rating — 13,832 ratings — published 2016 — 27 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 — 12,789 ratings — published 2001 — 31 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 — 12,574 ratings — published 2004 — 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

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Series by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space (8 books)
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4.08 avg rating — 220,732 ratings

The Inhibitor Sequence (4 books)
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4.05 avg rating — 132,095 ratings

House of Suns (2 books)
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Alastair Reynolds

4.24 avg rating — 36,041 ratings

Prefect Dreyfus Emergency (3 books)
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4.16 avg rating — 35,825 ratings

Poseidon's Children (3 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 23,636 ratings

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Quotes by Alastair Reynolds (?)

“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

OCTOBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two novels move on the run-off poll for our October 2012 SF Book of the Month.

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper

27 votes, 29.0%

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

26 votes, 28.0%

Invader by C.J. Cherryh

15 votes, 16.1%

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

13 votes, 14.0%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

12 votes, 12.9%

93 total votes

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