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Alastair Reynolds
Author · 64 books

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 Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I also dabble with paints now and then. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement.

Series

Books

Merlin's Gun book cover

Merlin's Gun

2000

Other Worlds Than These book cover

Other Worlds Than These

2012

Detonation Boulevard book cover

Detonation Boulevard

2023

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año III

2015

Redemption Ark book cover

Redemption Ark

2002

Turquoise Days book cover

Turquoise Days

2002

Beyond the Aquila Rift book cover

Beyond the Aquila Rift

2005

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten book cover

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten

2015

Doctor Who book cover

Doctor Who

Harvest of Time

2013

Machine Vendetta book cover

Machine Vendetta

2024

Century Rain book cover

Century Rain

2004

Eversion book cover

Eversion

2022

Love, Death and Robots book cover

Love, Death and Robots

The Official Anthology: Volume One

2021

The Prefect book cover

The Prefect

2007

Troika book cover

Troika

2010

A Spy in Europa book cover

A Spy in Europa

1997

On the Steel Breeze book cover

On the Steel Breeze

2013

Chasm City book cover

Chasm City

2001

The Six Directions of Space book cover

The Six Directions of Space

2008

Spirey and the Queen book cover

Spirey and the Queen

1996

Rivelazione /1 book cover

Rivelazione /1

2009

House of Suns book cover

House of Suns

2008

Blue Remembered Earth book cover

Blue Remembered Earth

2012

Odhalený vesmír 1 book cover

Odhalený vesmír 1

2000

Glacial book cover

Glacial

2001

Nightingale

2006

Pushing Ice book cover

Pushing Ice

2005

Grafenwalder's Bestiary book cover

Grafenwalder's Bestiary

2006

Elysium Fire book cover

Elysium Fire

2018

Poseidon's Wake book cover

Poseidon's Wake

2015

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days book cover

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

2001

Science Fiction book cover

Science Fiction

The Very Best of 2005

2006

Slow Bullets book cover

Slow Bullets

2015

Inhibitor Phase book cover

Inhibitor Phase

2021

Understanding Space and Time book cover

Understanding Space and Time

2005

Weather

2006

Bone Silence book cover

Bone Silence

2020

Galactic North book cover

Galactic North

2006

Revenger book cover

Revenger

2016

The Dagger in Vichy book cover

The Dagger in Vichy

2025

Shadow Captain book cover

Shadow Captain

2019

Beyond the Aquila Rift book cover

Beyond the Aquila Rift

The Best of Alastair Reynolds

2008

The Year's Best Science Fiction book cover

The Year's Best Science Fiction

Eighteenth Annual Collection

2001

Kuilukaupunki, osa I book cover

Kuilukaupunki, osa I

2001

The Starry Rift book cover

The Starry Rift

Tales of New Tomorrows

2008

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 book cover

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

2019

The Last Log of the Lachrymosa book cover

The Last Log of the Lachrymosa

2014

Permafrost book cover

Permafrost

2019

Great Wall of Mars book cover

Great Wall of Mars

2000

Made to Order book cover

Made to Order

Robots and Revolution

2020

Zima Blue book cover

Zima Blue

2006

Revelation Space book cover

Revelation Space

2000

Open and Shut book cover

Open and Shut

2018

Vainglory book cover

Vainglory

2023

Deep Navigation book cover

Deep Navigation

2010

Dilation Sleep

1990

Terminal World book cover

Terminal World

2010

Absolution Gap book cover

Absolution Gap

2005

The Revolutionary Left in Spain book cover

The Revolutionary Left in Spain

1914-1923

1974

Sleepover book cover

Sleepover

2010

The Iron Tactician book cover

The Iron Tactician

2016

Bifrost n°110 book cover

Bifrost n°110

Alastair Reynolds

2023

Thousandth Night book cover

Thousandth Night

2013

The Real Story book cover

The Real Story

2002

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