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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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Birmingham event and a gratuitous newt.

On Friday April 24, I'll be in conversation as a guest of the Birmingham SF Group. The event takes place at Millennium Point and online via Zoom, from 7.45pm.

The Brum group has always been most welcoming to me (my first ever solo author event was with them, back in 2000) and I'll be delighted to return.

In another news, I'm thrilled to report that my newts have survived the winter. Here's one:

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Alastair Reynolds’s books

Average rating: 4.02 · 325,705 ratings · 19,992 reviews · 275 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 52,787 ratings — published 2000 — 70 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 (Revelation Space, #2) by Alastair Reynolds, Chris Moore (Illustration) 4.15 avg rating — 28,209 ratings — published 2002 — 52 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 4.23 avg rating — 25,966 ratings — published 2008 — 49 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 — 23,946 ratings — published 2001 — 57 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 (Revelation Space, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 21,715 ratings — published 2005 — 11 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) 4.16 avg rating — 18,475 ratings — published 2007 — 7 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 — 18,239 ratings — published 2005 — 50 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 — 11,299 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 11,047 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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 — 10,216 ratings — published 2004 — 45 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 (4 books)
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Prefect Dreyfus Emergency (3 books)
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Poseidon's Children (3 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 21,111 ratings

Revenger (3 books)
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Merlin (4 books)
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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

¿Qué novela ACTUAL leemos en julio-agosto de 2022?

Espacio Revelación, de Alastair Reynolds

48 votes, 44.9%

Klara y el Sol, de Kazuo Ishiguro

37 votes, 34.6%

Más fría que la guerra, de Fabián Plaza Miranda

22 votes, 20.6%

107 total votes

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