Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space ...Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and...
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space ...Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking vision of 'The most exciting space opera writer working today' (Locus) in these two tales of high adventure set in the same universe as his novels. The title story, 'Diamond Dogs', tells of a group of mercenaries trying to unravel the mystery of a particularly inhospitable alien tower on a distant world; 'Turquoise Days' is about Naqi, who has devoted her life to studying the alien Pattern Jugglers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575083134 (0575083131)
Publish date: December 11th 2008
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Anthologies,
Space,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Collections,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Hard Science Fiction
Series: Revelation Space
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days is one of Reynold's older works set in his Revelation Space universe. It's not actually a full length novel, but rather two novella's. It's also shorter than what your likely to read on a full length novel, at just under 300 pages total. Diamond Dogs The Revelation S...
Diamond Dogs is wonderful, in concept and characterization - scary, vicious and inevitable. Turquiose Days is a bit weaker, in particular the pacing is odd and the mix of character arc with the wider political plot doesn't quite gel, but theres still a lot of interesting odds and ends strews through...
A good but not great pair of unrelated stories set in the "Revelation Space" universe. Although the stories stand alone, there are references to events and characters in the other books and I think the reader will gain more from them if they are familiar with the series already (although I've only r...
Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still 'Fie, foh, and fum I smell the blood of a British man. King Lear, Act 3, scene 4Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days is a pair of novellas set in Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" universe. I have lately began to believe that, in fact, ...
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