“A starship built around a single massive engine designed to suck in interstellar hydrogen and use it for reaction mass. Because it didn’t have to carry its own fuel around, it could go almost as fast as it liked, right up to the edge of light-speed.” In “The Prefect” by Alastair Reynolds S...
“Voke me active ching privilege. I need to drive your body.” Alastair Reynolds’ does John Wyndham’s “The Outward Urge” and the results are delicious. A more basic plot than usual is offset by great ideas and a hectic final 100 pages promising major consequences in the next two installments. Since co...
This was the best book that I've read in a while. This isn't normally what I'm used to reading but I thought I'd take a chance on it. I was sucked into to story from the beginning and didn't want it to end. This story follows quite a few different characters and at times does jump from present to pa...
Synopsis: Scur is a conscripted soldier at the end of a long war involving many worlds when she is captured and tortured by a war criminal. As she is left for dead she is rescued and for unknown reasons and put aboard a prison ship in stasis. But things don't go as planned and Scur wakes up aboard a...
“Kill me, please. Kill me now.” The ‘Revelation Space’ saga continues and if you’re in this far the news is good: ‘Redemption Ark’ more than satisfactorily continues proceedings because Reynolds, God bless him, doesn’t faff about. The Inhibitors are in play from the start and they’re merrily obliter...
Fantastic ideas and worldbuilding, but unfortunately a huge let-down after Revelation Space, which was one of the best scifi novels I've read. As this was in the same series, I hoped for more. However, I ended up calling it quits around two-thirds of the way through because the characters, dialogue,...
“There’s something out there that doesn’t welcome the curious. You’re going to meet it.” The novel Gentry Lee’s “Rama II” desperately wishes it could be. Janus, one of the moons of Saturn, suddenly decides to say sayonara to the solar system and what follows ranges from two friends falling out to th...
“I had chased a man across more than fifteen light-years, into a city which had become a sick perversion of itself.” Genetically engineered anthro-pigs and snakes the size of trains. A flotilla of five interstellar colony ships…tailed by a sixth “ghost ship”. If such material doesn’t get your juices...
"Your tenancy here has expired." If you've ever looked up at the night sky and asked yourself "Where the hell is everybody?" this novel proposes a toothsome solution. "Revelation Space" lacks the sense of mischief that something like Iain M. Banks “Excession” has but has just as strong a love of Big...
Reynolds reverts to form in many respects with this tale of the distant future where humans plunder dangerous abandoned facilities for forgotten technologies and artefacts using solar wind powered spacecraft. Gothic horror, morally questionable characters and body modification all make a come-back...
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