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Alastair Reynolds


Born
in Barry, Wales, The United Kingdom
March 13, 1966

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Genre
Science Fiction


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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Two Colson Whitehead books

 If you'd asked me to read a 600-plus page novel about a Harlem furniture salesman trying to walk a line between the crooked and straight worlds, I might not have felt I had the stamina. But I blasted through these two recent books back to back, and I think they've cemented Colson Whitehead as my favorite contemporary American writer.




They're not exactly novels. Each book takes a decade

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Revelation Space (Revelatio...
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House of Suns
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The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfu...
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Pushing Ice
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Revenger (Revenger #1)
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Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
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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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