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Alastair Reynolds

Born

in Barry, Wales, The United Kingdom

March 13, 1966

Website

http://www.alastairreynolds.com/

Genre

Science Fiction

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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 ...more

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It ain't me, babe

Thanks to my friends Paul and Malcolm for alerting me to a fake Bluesky social media account which is purporting to be me - it isn't. There is also at least one Stephen Baxter impersonator on Bluesky.

For the record, I'm not on any social media platforms. I used to be able to at least monitor the content of Twitter and Facebook without logging in, but I can't even do that anymore.

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Alastair Reynolds’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 367,403 ratings · 22,924 reviews · 289 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 58,113 ratings — published 2000 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2) by Alastair Reynolds, Chris Moore (Illustration) 4.16 avg rating — 30,880 ratings — published 2002 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of Suns 4.24 avg rating — 29,780 ratings — published 2008 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasm City 4.13 avg rating — 26,249 ratings — published 2001 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 23,926 ratings — published 2003 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1) 4.16 avg rating — 20,612 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pushing Ice 4.07 avg rating — 20,651 ratings — published 2005 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revenger (Revenger #1) 3.81 avg rating — 12,676 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,790 ratings — published 2001 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 11,867 ratings — published 2012 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space (4 books)
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Prefect Dreyfus Emergency (3 books)
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4.15 avg rating — 30,590 ratings

Poseidon's Children (3 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 22,564 ratings

Revenger (3 books)
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3.83 avg rating — 21,751 ratings

Merlin (4 books)
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3.96 avg rating — 3,166 ratings

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Quotes by Alastair Reynolds (?)

“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

tags: politics, sf, social-commentary

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“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

tags: caffeine, coffee

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“It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

tags: philosophy-of-life, politics, social-commentary

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Polls

April 2017 First Contact Sci-Fi

Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh

55 votes, 32.4%

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

43 votes, 25.3%

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

31 votes, 18.2%

Blindsight by Peter Watts

27 votes, 15.9%

The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt

14 votes, 8.2%

170 total votes

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