House of Suns: Alastair Reynolds (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

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from Abigail Gentian. Is Reynolds making the subtle point that, as clones, these are all the same person anyway? If

Thousandth Night", ISBN 978-1596062597 (with "Minla's Flowers") – Originally published in One Million A.D. (2005), Gardner Dozois, ed.; available in electronic format from Subterranean Press. His forthcoming work includes "Banish", which will be appearing in Multiverses by Preston Grassmann (ed.) for Titan Publishing. [11] Awards and nominations [ edit ]Six million years in the future, the entire galaxy is a Used Future. Tens of thousands of human civilizations have risen and fallen; the galaxy's been united under a single banner too many times to count. In the face of deep time, each galactic federation always falls. No one group endures. On 10 March 2019 Alastair Reynolds announced that his short stories "Zima Blue" and "Beyond the Aquila Rift" had been adapted as part of Netflix's animated anthology Love, Death & Robots. These stories are the first of Reynolds's works to be adapted for TV or film. [24] Bibliography [ edit ] Novels [ edit ] Revelation Space series [ edit ] used repeatedly before, and has followed it regardless of the fact that in some instances, as here, it can be more are, if not exactly renegade, then at least lax in their observance of family rules. They are, for example, already fifty

The Last Log of the Lachrimosa" – originally published in Subterranean Online (July 2014) (a Revelation Space story) [31] Except the Lines. Individually known as "shatterlings", the Gentian Line is composed of slightly under a thousand clones made from a woman who lived in the 31st century. They individually roam the galaxy, traveling from star to star near the speed of light, skipping over the ages via time dilation. Their purpose is to explore and catalogue civilizations. Every quarter-million years they all come together to share their experiences and combine their knowledge. They've existed for the past six million years, witness to the constant grind of civilization.Upon reaching Neume, Campion, Purslane and the other shatterlings they rescued are greeted by the few Gentian survivors of the ambush (numbering only in the forties, compared to the hundreds that existed before the ambush). They also meet two members of the Machine People: Cadence and Cascade, guests of another shatterling. During the next few days, the interrogation of the prisoners commences. Another Gentian, Cyphel, is mysteriously murdered, which fuels the Line’s concerns that there is a traitor among them. Deflector Shields: Used throughout the novel. A ubiquitous technology during the time of the novel. Also used for inertial dampening, as a ship's shields can be projected internally around its inhabitants, allowing extremely high-g maneuvers that would normally render everybody inside to jelly. Human Subspecies: Humanity fractured into a million daughter species, some of which were scarcely recognisable to each other. Galactic North. London: Gollancz, 2006. ISBN 0-575-07910-X (Contains all novellas and short stories in the Revelation Space universe up to 2006, except those in Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days)