The final volume in British author Reynolds's SF trilogy that began with Revelation Space (2001) fulfills all the staggering promise of the earlier books, and then some. The world Hela, an airless ...

Reynolds (The Prefect) is a master of fitting large-scale space opera into just a few pages, and this novella is no exception. The Mongols, led by Genghis Khan, conquered Earth a thousand years ago ...

Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds. I’ll always snap up a new Alastair Reynolds. This latest is in his Prefect Dreyfus series, and sees Dreyfus investigating the death of Invar Tench, a police ...

Reynolds returns to his Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies universe (after Elysium Fire) for a touching and spectacularly intricate sequel that also functions well as a standalone. Dreyfus is a seasoned ...

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