Client details

Alastair Reynolds

Books

PDF

Agent

Robert Kirby

Assistant: Charlotte Knee

cknee@unitedagents.co.uk

+ 44 (0) 203 214 0884

About

	Links
One third of the world's coal was exported out of Barry before the war, requiring a massive and fascinating infrastructure of docks, cranes, coal staithes and railway yards, much of which was still in place - albeit derelict and overgrown with weeds - when Alastair was growing up. After the war, Barry was also the place where lots of old steam engines were brought to be cut up for scrap. Al remembers seeing hundreds of them, waiting in long rusting lines. He like steam engines. A lot. Alastair spent his early years in Cornwall, then returned to Wales for his primary and secondary school education. He did a degree in astronomy at Newcastle, then a PhD in the same subject at St Andrews in Scotland. He left the UK in 1991 and spent the next sixteen years working in the Netherlands, mostly for the European Space Agency, although he also did a stint as a postdoctoral worker in Utrecht. Alastair returned to Wales in 2008 and now lives in Glamorgan, not too far from Cardiff. He is married to a wonderful French lady. He and his wife like horse riding, birds, long walks in the woods, good curries and old films. REVELATION SPACE was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA awards. CHASM CITY won the British Science Fiction Award. In early 2010 a historic book deal was brokered for Alastair - an impressive 10 books to be published by Gollancz. The first is to be delivered later this year. Hi latest novel, TERMINAL WORLD, appeared in March 2010. It's a far future, steampunk-influenced planetary romance about the adventures of an exiled pathologist, and a city in need of medicine... Coming in January 2012 will be BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH, book 1 of a trilogy called POSEIDON'S CHILDREN. It's a sequence of books dealing in a fairly rigorous, hard SF-nal way with the expansion of the human species (beginning with an African-dominated 22nd century) into the solar system and beyond, over the next 11,000 years...	http://www.alastairreynolds.com

Links

One third of the world's coal was exported out of Barry before the war, requiring a massive and fascinating infrastructure of docks, cranes, coal staithes and railway yards, much of which was still in place - albeit derelict and overgrown with weeds - when Alastair was growing up. After the war, Barry was also the place where lots of old steam engines were brought to be cut up for scrap. Al remembers seeing hundreds of them, waiting in long rusting lines. He like steam engines. A lot.

Alastair spent his early years in Cornwall, then returned to Wales for his primary and secondary school education. He did a degree in astronomy at Newcastle, then a PhD in the same subject at St Andrews in Scotland. He left the UK in 1991 and spent the next sixteen years working in the Netherlands, mostly for the European Space Agency, although he also did a stint as a postdoctoral worker in Utrecht. Alastair returned to Wales in 2008 and now lives in Glamorgan, not too far from Cardiff.

He is married to a wonderful French lady. He and his wife like horse riding, birds, long walks in the woods, good curries and old films.

REVELATION SPACE was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA awards. CHASM CITY won the British Science Fiction Award.

In early 2010 a historic book deal was brokered for Alastair - an impressive 10 books to be published by Gollancz. The first is to be delivered later this year.

Hi latest novel, TERMINAL WORLD, appeared in March 2010. It's a far future, steampunk-influenced planetary romance about the adventures of an exiled pathologist, and a city in need of medicine...

Coming in January 2012 will be BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH, book 1 of a trilogy called POSEIDON'S CHILDREN. It's a sequence of books dealing in a fairly rigorous, hard SF-nal way with the expansion of the human species (beginning with an African-dominated 22nd century) into the solar system and beyond, over the next 11,000 years...

http://www.alastairreynolds.com

Gallery

The Prefect
Redemption Ark
Zima Blue
Galactic North
Terminal World
House of Suns

Fiction

Publication Details	Notes
TERMINAL WORLD 2010 Gollancz	Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains . . . Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels - and with the dying body comes bad news.
HOUSE OF SUNS 2009 Gollancz	Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires.
ZIMA BLUE 2009 Gollancz	Reynolds' pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing - not that stars don't get pulverised when one character is gifted (or cursed) with an awful weapon by the legendary Merlin. Reynolds' protagonists find themselves in situations of betrayal, whether by a loved one's accidental death, as in 'Signal to Noise', or by a trusted wartime authority, in 'Spirey and the Queen'.
THE PREFECT 2008 Gollancz	Politics, ambition and betrayal against the backdrop of Reynolds' Revelation Space universe
ABSOLUTION GAP 2008 Gollancz	Return to the terrifying, exhilarating universe of REVELATION SPACE.
CHASM CITY 2008 Gollancz	Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a young woman in his care was blown away during an attack by a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of the murderer takes him across the universe from his home planet of Sky's Edge to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the inhospitable planet of Yellowstone.
REVELATION SPACE 2008 Gollancz	Dr Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist who has for years been fascinated with the long-dead alien race the Amarantin, is about to discover something that could change the course of mankind.
GALACTIC NORTH 2007 Gollancz	A fantastic foray back into the world of REVELATION SPACE by Britain's mastersinger of the space opera!
PUSHING ICE 2006 Gollancz	First Contact with extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies that could destroy the universe in a nanosecond, huge sweeping space operas: Alastair Reynolds is back!
CENTURY RAIN 2005 Gollancz	A noir thriller set in the Revelation Space universe .
DIAMOND DOGS, TURQUOISE DAYS 2003 Gollancz	Two tales of high adventure set in the Revelation Space universe.
REDEMPTION ARK 2003 Gollancz	A further adventure in the uniquely dark and dangerous universe of REVELATION SPACE and a plot that sees the return of the Inhibitors and gives full rein to Reynolds' trademark sentient super-weapons.