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
2000
Other Worlds Than These
2012
Detonation Boulevard
2023
Redemption Ark
2002
Turquoise Days
2002
Beyond the Aquila Rift
2005
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
2015
Doctor Who
Harvest of Time
2013
Machine Vendetta
2024
Century Rain
2004
Eversion
2022
Love, Death and Robots
The Official Anthology: Volume One
2021
The Prefect
2007
Troika
2010
On the Steel Breeze
2013
Chasm City
2001
The Six Directions of Space
2008
Spirey and the Queen
1996
Rivelazione /1
2009
House of Suns
2008
Blue Remembered Earth
2012
Glacial
2001
Pushing Ice
2005
Grafenwalder's Bestiary
2006
Elysium Fire
2018
Poseidon's Wake
2015
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
2001
Slow Bullets
2015
Inhibitor Phase
2021
Understanding Space and Time
2005
Bone Silence
2020
Galactic North
2006
Revenger
2016
Shadow Captain
2019
Beyond the Aquila Rift
The Best of Alastair Reynolds
2008
The Starry Rift
Tales of New Tomorrows
2008
The Last Log of the Lachrymosa
2014
Permafrost
2019
Made to Order
Robots and Revolution
2020
Zima Blue
2006
Revelation Space
2000
Open and Shut
2018
Vainglory
2023
Deep Navigation
2010
Terminal World
2010
Absolution Gap
2005
Sleepover
2010
The Iron Tactician
2016
Thousandth Night
2013
The Real Story
2002
