New Releases by Alastair Reynolds

A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award–winning novella “A Meeting with Medusa,” this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter—and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instead, he has been changed into an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable. With permission from the Clarke Estate, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds continue this beloved writer’s enduring vision and have created a fresh story for new readers. The Medusa Chronicles charts Falcon’s journey through the centuries granted by his new body, but always back to mysteries of Jupiter and the changing interaction between humanity and the universe. A compelling read full of incredible action right from the beginning, this is a modern classic in the spirit of 2001 and The Martian.

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of story-telling. In “The Man Who Sold the Moon,” by Cory Doctorow, hardware geeks and Burning Man fanatics band together to overcome challenges such as crowdfunding a space mission, falling in love, battling cancer and perfecting an open source engineering marvel in order to put a 3D printing robot, that creates ceramic building panels from sand, on the moon. “The Man Who Sold the Moon” won the 2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction. In “The Regular,” by Ken Liu, a cybernetically enhanced private investigator keeps her emotions in check with a piece of hardware called The Regulator while she searches for the murderer of a prostitute whom she suspects is a serial killer. “Claudius Rex,” by John P. Murphy, is a sci-fi whodunit comedy that pays tongue-in-cheek homage to Rex Stout and Isaac Asimov. A humble PI partners with an arrogant AI to solve the murder of the AI’s creator. Ai! In “Of All Possible Worlds,” by Jay O’Connell, an old timeline wizard coaxes a younger man to become his apprentice in an attempt to edit Earth’s history so that the planet will escape the ravages of the Long Night and ensure that our timeline is the best of all possible worlds. In “Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key,” by William Preston, the U.S. government brings a telepathic interrogator, who is a veteran of the American war in Iraq, to a secret complex in Texas to get a handle on an enigmatic prisoner known as “The Old Man.” A test of wills ensues between the two in this homage to Doc Savage. Finally, in “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa,” by Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe, a crew investigates a cave on a volcanic planet in the hopes of salvaging valuable abandoned tech only to discover that the cave is defended by a horrific psychological weapon.

An unabridged audio collection of the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Marielena,” by Nina Allan, an immigrant is haunted by his past, as well as his present and future, in a disturbingly mean-spirited near-future England. A convicted serial killer is sentenced to “rightminding” to cure his neurological disorder that resulted in the sociopathic murdering of thirteen women in “Covenant,” by Elizabeth Bear. “The Magician and LaPlace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill, follows a powerful AI that discovers the existence of magic and then prosecutes a vendetta against the magicians who grow more powerful as their numbers dwindle. In “Sadness,” by Timons Esaias, a man strikes back, as best he can, against the powerful aliens who conquered Earth long ago. In “Amicae Aeternum,” by Ellen Klages, a young girl shares her last morning on Earth with her girlfriend before boarding a generation starship. “Red Lights, and Rain,” by Gareth L. Powell, is a blend of sci-fi and vampire-hunting lore in which the vampires are made, not born. In “The Sarcophagus,” by Robert Reed, the maintenance cyborgs of the Great Ship encounter a stranded spacer in a derelict lifesuit from a long ago ship. “In Babelsberg,” by Alastair Reynolds, showcases a robot whose account of the dead colonists recently found on Titan are challenged by another AI. In “Passage of Earth,” by Michael Swanwick, a coroner gets a taste of the Earth invaders’ superior intelligence while dissecting a giant worm-like alien. Finally, in “The Colonel,” by Peter Watts, Colonel Moore tries to assess the capabilities of the hived human intelligences that have attacked a compound under his command.

This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. Their missions are dangerous, and they are all venturing into the unknown . . . and if they can uncover the secret to faster-than-light travel then new worlds will be at our fingertips. But innovation and progress are not always embraced by everyone. There is a saboteur at work. Different factions disagree about the best way to move forward. And the mysterious Watchkeepers are always watching.

Los Inhibidores son antiguas máquinas de matar, diseñadas para localizar y destruir cualquier forma de vida que alcance cierto nivel de inteligencia. Ahora, agitados tras eones de letargo, han alcanzado su último objetivo: la Humanidad. La primera ola de Inhibidores obligó al veterano de guerra Clavain y a un grupo de refugiados a ocultarse. Su liderazgo vacila y la situación se hace cada vez más desesperada. Pero su pequeña colonia acaba de recibir una visita inesperada: un ángel vengador con el poder de liderar a la Humanidad hacia un lugar seguro... o para dominar al peor de sus enemigos. Mientras les conduce hacia una aparentemente insignificante luna a años luz de allí, Clavain y sus compañeros comienzan a entender que para vencer a una amenaza quizá sea necesario forjar una alianza con algo mucho peor...

An unabridged collection of the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2013 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Zero for Conduct,” by Greg Egan, an Afghani teenager, living in a near-future Iran with her exiled grandfather, makes a game-changing superconductor discovery. A young girl struggles to survive on a planet, with a stringent class structure, where Doors are used to go off-world in “Exit, Interrupted,” by C. W. Johnson. “Pathways” by Nancy Kress, follows a teenage girl from a small Kentucky mountain town, in a near-future U. S., struggling with her family and culture as she seeks treatment for Fatal Familial Insomnia. In “Entangled,” by Ian R. MacLeod, an Indian woman, in a Britain turned upside down by a disease that links people’s minds, searches for answers to her personal catastrophe. In “The Irish Astronaut,” by Val Nolan, a colleague brings the ashes of an astronaut, who died in the Aquariusdisaster, to Ireland for final burial. In “Among Us,” by Robert Reed, a government agency goes to extraordinary lengths to identify and track the aliens among us. “A Map of Mercury,” by Alastair Reynolds, showcases the plight of a failed artist dispatched to retrieve an artistic genius from a collective of cyborgs parading across the face of Mercury. In “Martian Blood,” by Allen M. Steele, a researcher from Earth goes on an expedition into the untamed regions of Mars to extract blood from its natives. “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin,” by Michael Swanwick, set in the same milieu as Gene Wolfe’s “The Fifth Head of Cerberus,” follows the childhoods of two sisters on a planet far from Earth. Finally, in “The Best We Can,” by Carrie Vaughn, a frustrated scientist pursues first contact among an apathetic populace.

Die letzte Chance der Menschheit Das Lichtschiff Sehnsucht nach Unendlichkeit hat die letzten Überlebenden Resurgams nach ihrer Flucht vor den Unterdrückern auf den weit abseits gelegenen Planeten Ararat gebracht. Seit 20 Jahren haben die Flüchtlinge hier nun eine neue Welt aufgebaut und leben in einem vorsichtigen Frieden mit den geheimnisvollen Ureinwohnern, den Schiebern. Dann aber erreicht eine furchtbare Nachricht die Siedler: Die Unterdrücker haben die menschliche Kolonie auf Ararat entdeckt und drohen, den Planeten auszulöschen. Die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit ruht nun in der Geburt eines Kindes, das bereits mit großem Wissen zur Welt kommen wird: Aura.

Nella galassia è in corso un conflitto spietato e i pianeti Resurgam e Yellowstone sono al centro dell''azione. Nostalgia dell''Infinito, l''astronave che somiglia a un''Arca spaziale, contiene un carico di armi perfezionatissime appartenenti alla cosiddetta hell class che vanno recuperate a tutti i costi. Bisogna arginare la guerra, superando gli odi delle opposte fazioni, o vincerla con una mossa fulminea. Ed ecco emergere dallo sfondo la figura di Nevil Clavain, un essere umano modificato che può controllare il suo corpo e trasmettere il pensiero, al quale spetta il compito di guidare suo malgrado la fazione degli Ultra. Sono questi gli spunti da cui parte Redemption Ark, il nuovo, massiccio affresco di Alastair Reynolds ambientato nell''universo coerente della Rivelazione, già conosciuto dai nostri lettori in Rivelazione 1 e 2. ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Nato a Barry (Galles) nel 1966, ha esordito presso il pubblico italiano con Rivelazione 1 e 2 (Revelation Space, 2000), suddiviso in due parti in "Urania" nn. 1550 e 1553. Un capolavoro della nuova space opera britannica che ha già avuto diversi e acclamati successori: Chasm City, un romanzo del 2001 ambientato nello stesso universo; il presente Redemption Ark (2002), Absolution Gap (2003) e The Prefect(2007).

The award-winning author of the Revelation Space series continues his Poseidon''s Children saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity’s future... Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice Akinyaand heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars. The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial worlds—holoships—putting their faith in a physics they barely understand. Chiku’s ship is called Zanzibar—and over time, she will discover it contains an awesome secret—one which will lead her to question almost every certainty about her voyage, and its ultimate destiny...

HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.

« Reynolds enveloppe sa science-fiction d''un indémodable sentiment d''émerveillement. » Guardian Après un emprisonnement qui a duré plusieurs milliards d''années, les terribles Silds ont réussi à s''échapper. Sur un monde en ruine aux confins du temps, ils s''apprêtent à réécrire l''Histoire. Mais pour cela, ils doivent soumettre à leur volonté une intelligence qui dépasse la leur... Sur Terre, l''UNIT est appelée sur une plate-forme pétrolière afin d''enquêter sur un mystérieux incident. Mais à peine les recherches ont-elles débuté que le Brigadier commence à tout oublier du prisonnier le mieux gardé de l''UNIT... et cette amnésie ne frappe pas que lui. Tandis que débute l''invasion silde, le Docteur doit faire face à un terrible dilemme : pour sauver l''univers, il doit porter secours à son ennemi juré... le Maître. Une incroyable aventure du 3e Docteur racontée par Alastair Reynolds, auteur de science-fiction primé

Tom Dreyfus è un prefetto, uno dei migliori. La sua forza è Panoply, il corpo di polizia per cui lavora, e il suo battito è la vita complessa e pulsante della Fascia splendente, un anello di asteroidi spaziali di diecimila habitat umani che orbitano intorno al pianeta Yellowstone. Quando un attacco mortale distrugge uno di questi habitat, il caso appare subito di non facile soluzione. Ma le indagini di Tom lo porteranno su una pista ancora più pericolosa: dietro l’atroce massacro c’è un complotto per rovesciare il regime demarchico, ordito da una figura oscura, Aurora, convinta che la popolazione della Fascia splendente non possa più essere padrona del proprio destino. Presto Tom e la sua squadra combatteranno contro qualcosa di peggiore della tirannia e scopriranno che per salvare ciò che è prezioso a volte può essere necessario distruggerne una parte. Un uomo alla ricerca della verità: azione, intrigo, suspense in un thriller futuristico che cattura dalla prima pagina.

From award-winning science-fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, a spellbinding new adventure featuring the Third Doctor. After billions of years of imprisonment, the vicious Sild have broken out of confinement. From a ruined world at the end of time, they make preparations to conquer the past, with the ultimate goal of rewriting history. But to achieve their aims, they will need to enslave an intellect greater than their own... On Earth, UNIT is called in to investigate a mysterious incident on a North Sea drilling platform. The Doctor believes something is afoot, and no sooner has the investigation begun when something even stranger takes hold: the Brigadier is starting to forget about UNIT''s highest-profile prisoner. And he is not alone in his amnesia. As the Sild invasions begins, the Doctor faces a terrible dilemma. To save the universe, he must save his arch-nemesis...the Master.

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Those were Neil Armstrong’s immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan’s Hugo-award-winning “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey’s “The Road to NPS,” and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds’ “Vainglory” to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Safety Tests,” the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth’s nearest neighbours. Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.

The first novel in the Poseidon''s Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world’s dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery... Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice—the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur—something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished. But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed—secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.

Tanner Mirabel era un experto en seguridad que nunca cometía errores... hasta que una mujer a su cargo muere asesinada durante un ataque dirigido por un joven postmortal llamado Argent Reivich. Tanner persigue a Reivich más allá de su mundo natal, a través de varios años luz de espacio, hasta llegar a Ciudad Abismo, un asentamiento humano construido bajo una cúpula en el inhóspito planeta Yellowstone. Pero Ciudad Abismo no es lo que era: aquella utopía de última generación se había convertido en una oscura pesadilla gótica, víctima de un virus nanotecnológico que había corrompido profundamente tanto a los habitantes de la ciudad como a sus edificios. La ciudad es un lugar poblado por máquinas a vapor, misteriosas facciones y nuevos juegos mortales.

Arc, a new publication from the makers of New Scientist, explores the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors, alongside columns by thinkers and practitioners from the worlds of books, design, gaming, film and more.

Periódicamente, los shatterlings del clan Gentian han de reunirse en una ostentosa celebración para intercambiar sus recuerdos. Pero algo no va bien: dos de ellos van a llegar unas décadas tarde a la reunión. A su crimen se suma el hecho de que están enamorados. Lo único que se interpone entre ellos y una posible excomunión del clan es un robot llamado Hesperus, de la metacivilización de los mecánicos. Sin embargo, Hesperus tiene amnesia. Mientras los amantes esperan el castigo que puedan sufrir a manos de sus hermanos clones, interceptan una inesperada y angustiada comunicación que les aconseja que eviten el lugar de reunión a toda costa. Tras seis millones de años de estabilidad, alguien ha decidido que ha llegado el momento de poner fin al clan Gentian.

Was geschah auf Resurgam? Auf einem Bergarbeiterplaneten mit lebensfeindlicher Umwelt werden bei archäologischen Forschungen Artefakte einer untergegangenen Kultur entdeckt. Schon bald zeigt sich, dass die Erschaffer der Artefakte, die Amarantin, damit eine Katastrophe heraufbeschworen hatten, die sie selbst vernichtet hat, bevor sie die Raumfahrt entwickeln konnten. Zufall? Oder wollte jemand den Aufbruch ins All verhindern? Die Wissenschaftler wollen die Wahrheit hinter der Katastrophe aufdecken, doch sie bekommen es mit mächtigen Gegnern zu tun, denn die Relikte der verschwundenen Zivilisation führen an die Grenzen von Raum und Zeit – und darüber hinaus.

Alastair Reynolds revolutionized the science fiction genre with his critically-acclaimed Revelation Space novels. Now, the award-winning author presents a future of technological wonders—from every era… In a far-distant future, Spearpoint, the last human city, is a vast, atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones: semiautonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different—and rigidly enforced—level of technology. Following a botched infiltration mission, enforcement agent Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in a morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissection table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint’s Celestial Levels. And with the dying body comes bad news: Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint’s base. But he can neither imagine how far the journey will take him—nor comprehend how much is at stake…

A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre''s brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow. SHINE shows that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative. Let''s make our tomorrows SHINE. Featuring orginal stoires by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon, Lavie Tidhar, Jason Andrew Madeline Ashby, Jacques Barcia, Eva Maria Chapman, Ken Edgett, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Eric Gregory, Mari Ness, Holly Phillips, Gareth L. Powell & Aliette de Bodard, Gord Sellar, Paula R. Stiles and Jason Stoddard.

Unendliches Leben zwischen den Sternen Die Menschheit hat sich im All ausgebreitet - doch ganz anders, als wir uns das vorstellen: Mittels Klontechnik hat man anfangs nur ganz wenige Menschen ins All geschickt – in immer wieder neuen Ausgaben ihrer selbst. Und so sind in Millionen von Jahren sogenannte »Häuser« entstanden, Konglomerate aus Tausenden von Menschen, die eigentlich ein einziges Individuum sind. Jedes Mal, wenn diese »Häuser« zusammenkommen, verändert sich die Richtung, die die Zivilisation nimmt. Wieder einmal steht ein solches Treffen bevor – doch diesmal ist alles anders...

A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds 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''. His fertile imagination can resurrect Elton John on Mars in ''Understanding Space and Time'' or make prophets of the human condition out of pool-cleaning robots in the title story. But overall, the stories in ZIMA BLUE represent a more optimistic take on humanity''s future, a view that says there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.

A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds

Prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates a murderous attack on one of the space habitats of the Glitter Band--a crime that has left nine hundred people dead--and uncovers a plot by a mysterious entity seeking total control of the region.

An original novella by the modern master of space opera, limited to only 1000 signed hardcover copies.

Sur Sky''s Edge, Tanner Mirabel est un tueur d''élite. Soldat puis garde du corps à la solde d''un trafiquant d''armes, il traque Argent Reivich, le post-mortel qui a assassiné son employeur et, surtout, la femme de ce dernier... Une traque qui le conduit jusqu''à Chasm City, la Cité du Gouffre rongée par un fléau mortel. Tanner est très vite pris au piège dans un jeu machiavélique : les habitants de Chasm City maîtrisent une technologie très particulière qui leur permet de changer d''apparence... Les choses se compliquent encore quand Tanner découvre qu''il a contracté un virus qui le condamne à revivre des événements vieux de centaines d''années, lorsque la Flotille terrienne a entrepris la colonisation de la galaxie.