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Fiction, Science fiction, Space opera, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)
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- Paperback Jun 14, 2016 | 9780575090514 | RRP $27.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Jun 14, 2016 | 9780575090514 | RRP $27.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 28, 2015 | 9781409156079 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 30, 2015 | 9780575090521 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Gollancz
- Paperback Jun 14, 2016 | 9780575090514 | RRP $27.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 28, 2015 | 9781409156079 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 30, 2015 | 9780575090521 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Mankind has reached the stars. Now we are trying to unravel the heart of the universe, but all discoveries are dangerous and some mysteries might be safest left unexplored...
MANKIND HAS REACHED THE STARS.
Two hundred years after the fall of Mechanism, human society has achieved a kind of stability. There are colonies beneath the oceans, throughout the solar system, and beyond: on extrasolar planets. Vast hemi-relativistic ships connect these colonies, travelling at half the speed of light. Or rather they would, if the ominous presence of the alien Watchkeepers had not led to an enforced moratorium on interstellar travel.
But when a seemingly impossible radio signal reaches the colony Crucible, everything changes:
SEND NDEGE
It's origin is unpopulated, unexplored space. No one could be there - at least, not if they travelled using human technology - so who could have sent it? How did they get there? And what use do they have for the disgraced scientist Ndege Akinya?
Finding the answers will require one of the greatest expeditions humankind has ever launched, a journey further than ever attempted before, conducted under the implacable scrutiny of the Watchkeepers.
But as a mission is prepared on Crucible, it turns out they weren't the only ones to see the message - or its potential . . .
'Reynolds' future is so brilliantly extrapolated . . . original ideas fizzing off every page' The Guardian
'Brilliant, self-assured, colourful space opera' The Sun
Completing the informal trilogy which began with Blue Remembered Earth and On the Steel Breeze, this is a powerful and effective story.
Praise for Poseidon's Wake
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It's rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like "revelation" and "redemption". Reynolds pulls it off - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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A mastersinger of the Space Opera - THE TIMES
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A well-paced, complex story replete with intrigue, invention and an optimism uncommon in contemporary SF - The Guardian
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. REVELATION SPACE and PUSHING ICE were shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD; REVELATION SPACE, ABSOLUTION GAP, DIAMOND DOGS and CENTURY RAIN were shortlisted for the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD and CHASM CITY won the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD.
You can learn more by visiting www.alastairreynolds.com.
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