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“Memphis paused for breath. It must have been hard, carrying Sunday and also having to keep his own balance. ‘The artilect sensed the presence of Sunday’s machines, the ones inside her head. It worked out how to talk to them, how to make Sunday think there was someone calling.’ The idea of a machine tricking [...]
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“It is necessary to speak of beginnings. Understand one thing, though, above all else. Whatever brought us to this moment, this declaration, could never have had a single cause. If we have learned anything, it’s that life is never that simple, never that schematic. You might say it was the moment when our grandmother set [...]
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“One on One: We have a Close Encounter with True Blood’s saucy undead redhead Deborah Ann Woll, discover Charlaine Harris’ Heroes & Inspirations and speak to Alastair Reynolds about his latest Blue Remembered Earth.” Unseen. http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/01/10/sfx-218-preview/
Presumably short interview :- “And we also hear from hard SF author Alastair Reynolds and speculative fiction author Jeff Noon about their new projects, how they feel about being classed within the same genre, and writing on Twitter. ” Not listened to this yet. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/jan/06/books-podcast-science-fiction-now-tomorrow?CMP=twt_gu http://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/kip/books/series/books/1325862937930/8966/gdn.bks.120106.sb.sci-fi-podcast.mp3
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Youtube book trailer. 3 out of 5
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“ActuSF : In your book, you’re describing a situation in less than 50 years where humans will be operating comets for its ice and have colonies on the Moon and Mars. Do you think our actual economy and biggest interests and strategies for future will produce such technological advances and developments ? What in your [...]
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“I’m on the Coode Street Podcast, with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K Wolfe. We recorded it in Reno back in August. It had been a long day – I’d flown in from LA, via Oakland, and then had a rush to check in to my hotel and then get over to the convention centre in [...]
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“Word frequency cloud for a large chunk of BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH” His blog has a link to the website that does the production :- 4 out of 5 http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2011/10/cloud-restructured-earth.html
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“Imminent, on both sides of the Atlantic, is Solaris Rising, the new all-original SF anthology edited by Ian Whates. It includes my 7000 word story “For the Ages”, about diamond planets, pulsars and the ultimate knowledge limits of cosmology.” … “It’s a terrible and beautiful thing I’ve done. I suppose I already had it in [...]
“Alastair Reynolds Alastair Reynolds is a science fiction writer and former scientist. He lives in Wales. His latest novel is the far-future Terminal World. Coming up is Blue Remembered Earth, book 1 of the Poseidon’s Children trilogy. The notion of absolute post-scarcity has always struck me as more fantasy than fiction: unless one is dealing [...]
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“There are of course classes of technology that don’t change very rapidly, like furniture, houses, common tools and simple appliances, as well as cheap, mass-produced consumer goods like biros and paperclips. But actual branded models of things, such as makes of cars, are perceived to have woefully short lifespans. This is something that SF seems [...]
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“I wrote Pushing Ice in 2005, setting the main action in 2057 – a little over fifty years from the time of writing. When I started developing the book, mid way through 2004, the story took place a good century further into the future. But I quickly got bogged down in stuff that, while interesting, [...]
“S-Cam, the instrument I helped work on, was a photon-counting detector. Each of its supercooled pixels was connected to a complex chain of electronics which enabled S-Cam to record not only the energy and position of incoming photons – individual particles of light – but also their arrival times. As each photon arrived, it triggered [...]
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“I really enjoyed working at ESA, but it often seemed like the database management side of my job was squeezing out any time to get to grips with the science side. My bosses kindly gave me a third year as a fellow, but at the end of 1994 I left to spend two years commuting [...]
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“Award-winning science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds is to delve into the past of Doctor Who in a new novel that sees the Time Lord in his Jon Pertwee incarnation taking on the Master. Author of the Revelation Space series and winner of British Science Fiction award for best novel, Reynolds’s Harvest of Time will feature [...]
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“The literature of non-fictional technological prognostication is neither large nor much prized for the accuracy of its guesses. In his breezy, accessible and cheerily upbeat new book The Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku argues that too much has been written by well-meaning outsiders, with no direct experience of front-line science. Offering instead an “insider’s [...]
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Novelette Number of words : 8100 Percent of complex words : 8.6 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 10.6 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.7 Flesch : 72.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.7 PEOPLE Buddy Fox A music promoter and entrepreneur. James Hetfield Singer with Metallica. Jake Addison Buddy’s old partner and creator [...]
Forthcoming “Today I’ve just watched Atlantis land for the final time. And I’m now pleased to announce that in 2013, in the fiftieth anniversary year of Doctor Who, BBC Books/Ebury will be publishing HARVEST OF TIME, an original science fiction novel featuring the Third Doctor, his companion Jo Grant, and arch-enemy The Master.” http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2011/07/harvest-of-time.html
Brand new, it seems :- http://twitter.com/aquilarift 5 out of 5
In Year’s Best SF 16. 4 out of 5
“This story was your first foray into military science fiction. Will you tell us about its origins? Back in 2009 there was a bit of publicity surrounding my new ten book deal with Orion. As part of that, the Guardian newspaper asked me to write a short story that could be narrated (by me) and [...]
“In other news, Ian Whates has kindly agreed to take a new 7000 word story of mine, “For the Ages”, to appear in SOLARIS RISING, a new original anthology which I would imagine will appear in 2012. My story was inspired by this Scientific American article on The End of Cosmology (unfortunately behind paywall) which [...]
““The Revelation Space books mention the Dawn War, an important event that took place early in the history of the Galaxy. Do you have any plans for a novel or trilogy specifically about the Dawn War? Such a trilogy would make the “galactic history” complete, wouldn’t it?” Big Al frowned and rubbed his eyes under [...]
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Theodore Sturgeon award nomination, 2011. 4.5 out of 5
Online text version of this story. 4 out of 5 http://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/kip/books/series/books/1245671468081/4260/gdb.bks.091622.fp.Alastair-Reynolds.mp3 http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/scales/
“”A poetry collection, travel novel and sci-fi story are among the works shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The English-language titles are What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit, Cloud Road by John Harrison and Alastair Reynolds’s Terminal World. On the Welsh-language list are Caersaint by Angharad Price, Lladd Duw by Dewi Prysor [...]
Reynolds was one of the contributors :- “I don’t think I encountered the term “world-building” until long after the point when I was already selling SF, so it’s always struck me as one of those hermetic, workshop-insider terms that doesn’t have a lot of bearing on the actual process of writing. Nor do I ever [...]
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Hugo nomination for best novella, 2011. 4.5 out of 5
“Its many flaws notwithstanding, I’ve always greatly enjoyed this film. It may well have been the first piece of cinematic SF I encountered – if it wasn’t Fantastic Voyage, then it would have been another guilty pleasure, George Pal’s 1960 version of The Time Machine.” 3.5 out of 5 http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2011/04/fantastic-voyage.html
“Yellowstone, orbitting around Epsilon Eridani, after the Melding Plague with the Rust Belt, the remains of the Glitter Band. Based on the human colony described in Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.” 3.5 out of 5
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“The good ship “Nostalgia For Infinity” is the main ship featured in Alastair Reynolds’ epic “Revelation Space” trilogy. I loved the books, and was intrigued by his descriptions of this monumental craft – which is over a kilometer in length and described as a very long and needle shaped craft. This is a very literal [...]
“Another image inspired by the Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds, see also [link] This one depicts a scene in the last book, Absolution Gap, when it’s just about to get really good” 3 out of 5
“Zebra, the Post-Human, Post-Mortal Assassin\Rebel, overlooks the ruined landscape of Chasm City.” 3.5 out of 5
“a fan art of the “Nostalgia for Infinity”. from an Alastair reynolds’ novel : ” Revelation Space”. In the background : Yellowstone, the famous planet of Chasm city….” 3 out of 5
“or as the political correct term goes “Conjoiner Female”” 3 out of 5
“inspired by the inhibitors in human form from Absolution Gap by Alister Reynolds” 3 out of 5
“I really like the Warlock Destroyer from Babylon 5, and while I didnt intend for my Lighthugger (a LARGE STL spaceship from Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space novels) to look like it… it did. About 4.5 kilometers long, 2 kilometers wide. I did deviate from the basic Lighthugger design. Instead of the ‘Conjoiner Drives’ being in [...]
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“That repulsive, pigdog-like creature is a Musk Dog from Alastair Reynold’s scifi novel Pushing Ice. The Musk Dogs are quite possible the most disgusting alien species I’ve ever read about in science fiction: they travel inside a huge, half-organic (not necessarily living) spaceship called “the Gristleship”. The Gristleship looks like a combination of cancerous mass, [...]
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“This is my first piece inspired by Alastair Reynolds’ “Inhibitor Cycle” (Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redeption Ark & Absolution Gap) Yellowstone is one of the most prominent of the human settlements, but its capital, Chasm City, hasn’t been the same since the Melding Plague hit. Also shown is Marco’s Eye, Yellowstone’s solitary moon, and the [...]
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“inspired by redemption ark by alastair reynolds” 3 out of 5
“My piece is entitled Ascension Day; it’s a very short science fiction story. This is a great venture and well worth supporting, I’d say. The book will cost you all of 59 New Pence…” Unseen – out in April 2011 this book he says. http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2011/03/voices-from-past.html
“So Liz and I finished our collaboration – it’s called “Lune and the Red Empress”, it’s 16,000 words, set in Paris, in the very distant future, and it’ll be appearing in the Eastercon souvenir book (Liz and I were guests of honour in 2010).” http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html
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Extract from a Locus Magazine interview :- “I’m always trying to write from a rationalist perspective, but I tend to push away from the label ‘hard SF’ as well, because I think it’s a limiting term that puts off as many people as it attracts. I try to position myself in the same area as [...]
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Into The Superunknown The Death Of Hard Sf And Why This Is Possibly A Good Thing – Alastair Reynolds
In Journey Planet 7 fanzine ” Rather, I think, Gardner Dozois said it already when he spoke of Core SF — and perhaps nowadays we don’t even need the qualifying “core”. This is just SF doing what it does best: taking inspiration from science, playing fair with it to a degree, but not being afraid [...]
“the current issue of SciFi Now (150) has some stuff from me in it, if anyone’s interested. I did a short editorial, a book review (Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s The Fallen Blade, which I’m pleased to say I liked rather a lot), some commentary on six space-based films that I’m fond of, and a sidebar paragraph [...]
“Charity e-book company launched 16.12.10 | Charlotte Williams Angry Robot editor Lee Harris and steampunk author Scott Harrison have set up a non-profit e-book publishing company. H&H Books plans to publish works and contribute funds to charitable causes. Voices from the Past will be the first title from the publisher, an anthology of flash fiction [...]
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Video interview for the ABC book show. 4 out of 5 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/video/web_extras/2010.htm?program=firsttuesday&pres=3081263&story=1
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A video interview discussion about his work and SF in general at the moment. 5 out of 5 http://www.salonfutura.net/2010/12/interview-alastair-reynolds/
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Chronological bibliography of his work. 5 out of 5 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Alastair_Reynolds
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The author’s website. 4.5 out of 5 http://voxish.tripod.com/
From Cosmos magazine :- “What are you working on now? A trilogy! It’s actually one of my most optimistic stories so far. It’s about the future of space exploration in a 22nd century post-climate change world. We’ve gone to Mars and back to the Moon. Africa is the main economic and technological super power – [...]
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Novelette Number of words : 10500 Percent of complex words : 7.5 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 9.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 6.9 Flesch : 76.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 4.5 PEOPLE Peter Vandry A boy who needs to get offworld in a hurry. Master Khorog Shipmaster and pirate. Mister Zeal [...]
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Creatures that live among stars and create magnetic fields. Can be used as a weapon as a result. 4 out of 5
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An electrical weather phenomenon. 3 out of 5
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An unmodified human. 4 out of 5
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Humans with brain surgery modifications to make them dumb and docile. 4 out of 5
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Ship drive. 4 out of 5
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Ship cryogenics. 3 out of 5
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A pirate ship that is really the Devilfish. 4 out of 5
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Small, non-lethal weapon that looks like a soldering iron. 4 out of 5
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A sonic disruptor weapon. 4 out of 5
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An old civilisation. 3 out of 5
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Has a strong magnetic field. 3 out of 5
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Has a good antique weapons market. 3 out of 5
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Before Frovolo. 3 out of 5
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A planet he wants to get to, in the Frovolo Hub. 3 out of 5
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Places he doesn’t want to go. 3 out of 5
The planet he wants to leave. 4 out of 5
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Where Peter wants to get a ride anywhere but here. 4 out of 5
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A young Flux Swimmer. 3.5 out of 5
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An Iron Lady drive engineer. 3.5 out of 5
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He and his gang are after Peter on Mokmer. 3 out of 5
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The ship’s surgeon. 3.5 out of 5
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Shipmaster and pirate. 3.5 out of 5
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A boy who needs to get offworld in a hurry. 4 out of 5
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Vignette Number of words : 950 Percent of complex words : 12.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 18.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.0 Flesch : 59.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4 ORGANISATIONS Galactic Information Network Has lots of spam etc. Galactic Community Everybody out there. TECHNOLOGY Four billion billion Megawatts One [...]
Vignette Number of words : 950 Percent of complex words : 12.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 18.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.0 Flesch : 59.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 9.4 ORGANISATIONS Galactic Information Network Has lots of spam etc. Galactic Community Everybody out there. TECHNOLOGY Four billion billion Megawatts One [...]
Making your Solar System a big sphere around the sun. Not a good idea for humans. 4 out of 5
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Too dodgy to talk to. 4 out of 5
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Sometimes down. 3.5 out of 5
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Intergalactic malware. 4 out of 5
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One percent of the energy output of the G-type star your planet orbits! 4 out of 5
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Notes on a couple of bands : – ncritical rave #1: Grandaddy. “A growing collection of uncritical raves, beginning with the rock group Grandaddy. I like Grandaddy very much, although I’ve struggled to articulate quite what it is about them that rocks my world so effectively. I know that they are from Modesto, California, I [...]
