"Beyond the Aquila Rift" was published in Constellations. His first short story collection, Galactic North, collecting pieces in the RS universe, is out in 2006. His last two novels are Century Rain and Pushing Ice. He is growing fast as an SF writer in this decade. His first novel, Revelation Space, was published in 1999. He is one of the new British space opera writers to emerge in the mid and late 1990s, in the generation after Baxter and McAuley, and originally the most "hard SF" of them. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them, and why - before their ancient line is wiped out of existence, forever.Beyond the Aquila Rift ALASTASR REYNOLDS From Hartwell, David - Year's Best SF 11 (2006) Alastair Reynolds (lives in Noordwijk, Holland, and worked for ten years for the European Space Agency before becoming a full-time writer in 2004. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.Ĭampion and Purslane are not only late for their thirty-second reunion, but they have brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. A spectacular, large-scale space opera - the ultimate galaxy-spanning adventure
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