New Releases by Alastair Reynolds

In the conclusion of Alastair Reynolds’ epic Poseidon’s Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars—and a last opportunity to redeem their name... Send Ndege... The cryptic message originated seventy light-years away from the planet Crucible, where Ndege Akinya lives under permanent house arrest for her role in the catastrophe that killed 417,000 people. Could it be from her mother, Chiku, who vanished during a space expedition decades earlier? Ndege’s daughter, Goma, a biologist, joins the crew of the Travertine, dispatched to Gliese 163 to uncover the source behind the enigmatic message. Goma’s odyssey will take her not only into the furthest reaches of space but centuries into her family’s past where the answers to the universe’s greatest mysteries await...

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.

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself. A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur--and for humanity--peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship. Passengers--combatants from both sides of the war--are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life.

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.

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

Critically-acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds creates “a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study”(Publishers Weekly) in this novel in his Revelation Space universe. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.

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

An awe-inspiring novel from the award-winning author of the Revelation Space series... “Century Rain fuses time-travel, hard SF, alternate history, interstellar adventure and noir romance to create a novel of blistering powers and style.”—SF Revu Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late—for the past and the future of two worlds…

Alastair Reynolds returns to his bestselling Revelation Space universe with two novellas of interstellar exploration. “Diamond Dogs” The planet Golgotha—supposedly lifeless—resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists. It is home to an enigmatic machine-like structure called the Blood Spire, which has already brutally and systematically claimed the lives of one starship crew that attempted to uncover its secrets. But nothing will deter Richard Swift from exploring this object of alien origin... “Turquoise Days” In the seas of Turquoise live the Pattern Jugglers, the amorphous, aquatic organisms capable of preserving the memories of any human swimmer who joins their collective consciousness. Naqi Okpik devoted her life to studying these creatures—and paid a high price for swimming among them. Now, she may be the only hope for the survival of the species—and of every person living on Turquoise...

Alastair Reynolds continues his Revelation Space series with this “first-rate work of science fiction, a thoroughly modern space opera full of dangers and marvels to match”(SF Site). The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence—and they’ve targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety—or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse...