Alastair Reynolds
Forfatter af Revelation Space
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Værker af Alastair Reynolds
Open and Shut 11 eksemplarer
Rivelazione /2 10 eksemplarer
Rivelazione /1 9 eksemplarer
Fresco 8 eksemplarer
Stroboscopic 7 eksemplarer
The Fixation 7 eksemplarer
At Budokan 6 eksemplarer
Fury 6 eksemplarer
The Receivers {short story} 6 eksemplarer
The Star Surgeon's Apprentice 5 eksemplarer
Byrd Land Six {short story} 4 eksemplarer
Feeling Rejected 4 eksemplarer
The Big Hello! 4 eksemplarer
Trauma Pod 4 eksemplarer
Ascension Day 4 eksemplarer
Shadow Captain 3 eksemplarer
The Water Thief (Short story) 3 eksemplarer
On the Oodnadatta {short story} 3 eksemplarer
Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee {short story} 3 eksemplarer
Viper 3 eksemplarer
The Old Man and the Martian Sea 3 eksemplarer
In Babelsberg (short story) 3 eksemplarer
The Last Log of the Lachrymosa 2 eksemplarer
Holdfast {short story} 2 eksemplarer
Sad Kapteyn 2 eksemplarer
Magic Bone Woman 2 eksemplarer
Slow Bullets 2 eksemplarer
Bone Silence 2 eksemplarer
A Murmuration {short story} 2 eksemplarer
The Iron Tactician 1 eksemplar
Polished Performance [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Death's Door 1 eksemplar
Merlin’s Gun 1 eksemplar
Poseidon's Wake 1 eksemplar
Urania 1692 - PROIETTILI LENTI 1 eksemplar
Lune And The Red Empress 1 eksemplar
Un-Collected Stories 1 eksemplar
Short Fiction Complete 1 eksemplar
Star Surgeon's Apprentice 1 eksemplar
2006 1 eksemplar
Stories 1 eksemplar
Different Seas {short story} 1 eksemplar
Night Passage {short story} 1 eksemplar
A Map of Mercury 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006) — Bidragyder — 528 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragyder — 509 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008) — Bidragyder — 475 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007) — Bidragyder — 434 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Bidragyder — 389 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (2011) — Bidragyder — 293 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Bidragyder — 239 eksemplarer
The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015) — Bidragyder — 170 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014) — Bidragyder — 168 eksemplarer
Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction (2010) — Bidragyder — 136 eksemplarer
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Bidragyder — 129 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (2018) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Bidragyder — 53 eksemplarer
More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017) — Bidragyder — 50 eksemplarer
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Reynolds, Alastair
- Juridisk navn
- Reynolds, Alastair Preston
- Fødselsdato
- 1966-03-13
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
Wales - Fødested
- Barry, Wales, UK
- Bopæl
- Leiden, Netherlands
Cornwall, England, UK
Cardiff, Wales, UK - Uddannelse
- Newcastle University (BS|1988)
University of St Andrews (Ph.D|1991) - Erhverv
- astronomer
astrophysicist
science fiction writer - Organisationer
- European Space Agency
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel (2001)
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book (2017)
Sidewise Award for Alternate History (2010)
Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story
Guest of Honour Odyssey (Eastercon) 2010
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[[Alistair Reynolds']] [Terminal World] i Science Fiction Fans (juli 2011)
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- Værker
- 126
- Also by
- 102
- Medlemmer
- 34,594
- Popularitet
- #547
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 1,063
- ISBN
- 534
- Sprog
- 18
- Udvalgt
- 193
The Prefects have mostly been able to concentrate on local affairs as the AIs are confined to network traffic. The story opens somewhat confusingly with reference to past events not explicitly detailed anywhere (unless I've missed a short story somewhere?), but eventually enough is referred to for teh details to become clear. Two Prefects have committed rather unusual suicide/crimes, and in a force of over 1000 this is perhaps not unusual, but they were in such a manner as to inflame local tensions, and so Dreyfus wonders if there was a link. If you pull on enough strings even deeply buried secrets can be revealed in time. A glimmer there and a shape of a story starts to appear. But when manipulative AI is involved can you trust anything?
There were a few aspects I didn't like - the eventual motif seems to be a repeat from Fire, which is disappointing. And as with all of this series, there isn't enough worldbuilding to be truly great. Out of 10000 habitats we mostly see only pedestrian ones, when there could be an almost infinite variety. The lemurs were cute though. Somehow having nuclear weapons as the ultimate option in an age so far advanced seems dull.
The ending is quite clear that there will be no more Dreyfus emergencies. However I still want to know the full story of the melding plague and there is space for that to be written.… (mere)