New Releases by Alastair Reynolds

Découvrez Brage, le label de formats courts des éditions Bragelonne ! Dans la complexe et surprenante nouvelle que nous présentons ici (et qui compose en fait un triptyque avec deux autres nouvelles de Reynolds : « Hideaway » et « Merlin''s Gun », retraçant le parcours du personnage Merlin), il nous démontre que les projets à long terme peuvent aussi avoir des conséquences à long terme, parfois complètement inattendues... Alastair Reynolds est un contributeur régulier d''Interzone, mais ses nouvelles ont aussi paru dans Asimov''s Science Fiction ou ailleurs. Son premier roman, L''Espace de la révélation, fut acclamé comme une oeuvre importante de la SF dès sa sortie, et fut suivi par d''autres livres situés dans le même univers, La Cité du gouffre, L''Arche de la rédemption, Le Gouffre de l''absolution et The Prefect. Il s''agit d''énormes romans de space opera qui ont propulsé Reynolds au rang des auteurs de SF les mieux accueillis et les plus vendeurs depuis quelques années. Il a également publié d''autres romans indépendants tels que La Pluie du siècle, Pushing Ice et House of Suns. Beaucoup de ses nouvelles sont reprises dans les recueils Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (traduit en français), Galactic North et Zima Blue and Other Stories. Son prochain livre sera le roman Terminal World. Alastair Reynolds, qui possède un doctorat en astronomie, est un scientifique de profession. Il est d''origine galloise mais vit actuellement aux Pays-Bas, où il travaille pour l''Agence spatiale européenne. L''oeuvre d''Alastair Reynolds se caractérise surtout par son envergure et la démesure de ses concepts - dans une de ses nouvelles, « Galactic North », un vaisseau spatial se met à la poursuite d''un autre, dans une course qui durera des millénaires, à travers des centaines de milliers d''années-lumière dans une autre, « Thousandth Night », des immortels richissimes lancent un plan qui demande le réaménagement physique de toutes les étoiles dans notre Galaxie.

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.

Solaris Rising is the first in an exciting new series of anthologies that are set to reaffirm Solaris''s proud reputation for producing high quality science fiction. The book will feature all original short stories from many best-selling authors such as Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar, Ian Watson, Ken MacLeod, Mike Resnick, Tricia Sullivan, Eric Brown, Steve Rasnic Tem along with other top name authors; stories guaranteed to surprise, thrill and delight, demonstrating why science fiction remains the most innovative, satisfying, and downright exciting genre of all.

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.

An “engaging and awe-inspiring”(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels. Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence...

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

For many of us, the Ace Double Novels of the ''50s and ''60s have long been a source both of pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press stands squarely in that distinguished tradition, offering a pair of colorful, fast-paced stories from the reigning master of the intergalactic space opera: Alastair Reynolds. Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue, ambition, and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu, it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery, grandeur, and inconceivable immensity of the universe. The masterful novella Minla''s Flowers features Merlin, a familiar figure to Reynolds''s readers. Diverted by technical difficulties to a planet known as Lecythus, Merlin finds himself forced to play a part in the moral and military dilemmas of a world on the verge of extinction.

Presents a collection of eight short stories and novellas based on the universe of Revelation Space, including three tales original to this collection, that capture a dark and dangerous future world of squabbling human space colonies, mysterious alien civilizations, and vast lighthugger starships. Reprint.

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.

“A thrilling ride in the new era of well-written space adventure”(The Denver Post) from the author of the Revelation Space series. 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny—for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome...

In Diamond Dogs, Richard Swift heads to the planet Golgotha, home to a mysterious structure, which is responsible for the destruction of a starship, and in Turquoise Days, one woman holds the key to preserving life on the plant of Turquoise. Reprint.

In the epic conclusion of the Revelation Space trilogy, veteran Clavain and his desperate companions seek refuge on a remote moon, light-years away from the ancient killing machines wreaking havoc on the universe in an attempt to destroy all human life, only to discover that to defeat this horrific enemy, they must forge an uneasy alliance with an even more deadly "ally." Reprint.

Accidentally triggering the Inhibitors, alien killing machines designed to seek out and destroy all intelligent life, all humankind in the twenty-sixth century faces certain annihilation, unless a secret cache of doomsday weapons can be found and recovered. Reprint.

Tanner Mirabel ventures through the dark underside of Chasm City, a once utopian city overrun by a vicious virus known as the Melding Plague, in pursuit of a lowlife postmortal and comes face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that everyone would do anything to keep hidden. Reprint.

The highly-acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe—a debut that has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself... “[A] TOUR DE FORCE…RAVISHINGLY INVENTIVE.”—Publishers Weekly Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason—and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself—could be irrevocably altered...

Een man probeert er achter te komen waarom een volk, dat op het punt stond ruimtevaart te ontwikkelen, werd weggevaagd.

Al doilea volum din trilogia SPAȚIUL REVELAȚIEI. Târziu în secolul al XXVI-lea rasa umană a avansat suficient de mult cât să atragă atenția nedorită a Inhibitorilor – mașini de ucis extraterestre făcute să detecteze viața inteligentă și s-o distrugă. Politicienii par să fi abandonat lupta și vor să fugă lăsând de izbeliște triburile umane. Singura speranță a omenirii este să găsească armele apocalipsei acum bine ascunse. Clavain un renegat e decis să le găsească pentru că nu se poate împăca cu decizia lașă și cinică a conducătorilor. Însă nu e singurul în joc sunt și alte facțiuni cu agende diferite. Armele au la rândul lor propria agendă. „O poveste epică despre război politică ideologie și invazie extraterestră. Cu o tehnică narativă inteligentă și personaje bine construite acest roman își va absorbi complet cititorii.“ Booklist „Respicienta nu punea niciodată întrebări despre activitatea ei. Ea știa doar că acționa pentru binele final al vieții înzestrate cu rațiune. Nu era deloc îngrijorată că această criză pentru a cărei evitare acționa criza care avea să devină un dezastru cosmic incontrolabil dacă vieții inteligente i se permitea să se răspândească se afla tocmai la treisprezece Rotații – trei miliarde de ani – în viitor. Asta era lipsit de importanță. Timpul nu însemna absolut nimic pentru Inhibitori.“ "