I’m currently rebuilding the website as the old one got totally messed up when i was playing around with things (no idea what happened).
So i thought that while it was a total clusterfuck mess of SQL, i would take the opportunity to give it a whole new life and everything.
So if you go clicking on things you might find that very strange things happen. Don’t moan, i know a lot of things are broken, i’m working on it, it takes time.
I’ve got tons of old posts and pages from three websites that i’m working through and will be gradually posting all the stuff i want to keep on here while fixing all the broken things as i go through, one post, one page, at a time.
On top of doing all that, i will, of course, be continuing to add more new content and my latest posts will always appear directly below.
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Enjoy
The Big Hello — Alastair Reynolds
It’s listed on Wikipedia without a date, but it’s first in the queue of Alastair’s uncollected short fiction, and it is The Big Hello, afterall, so you may as well read it first if you’re reading all of Alastair’s books: me thinks.
You’ll have to hunt around the internet for this, it was originally published in German translation in a convention program. But, like most rare things, it’s well worth a bit of a hunt around.
Basically, it’s a greeting from the rest of the galaxy informing us stupid Homo sapiens of a bit of etiquette, manners and how to go about things outside of out little insular bubble. But, let’s be honest, we all know people like Musk & Co. are going to ignore everything Alastair says and totally fuck it up for the rest of us.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi
This book is awful.
Well, at least the first 12% of it was. It was so awful that i really just couldn’t be bothered to wade through any more of the trudging, depressing, miserable writing. I feel i gave it a fair go because if a writer can’t sort his mess out in the first 12% of a book then the book can be deleted as far as i’m concerned.
All we get are depressing characters that you really have no inclination for any level of empathy towards, you just wish they’d all go away and someone interesting turn up, but no one does. Just miserable, depressing people who drink alcohol and smoke and live in a kind of steampunk dystopia which hasn’t been explained as to how all this mess came about. In fact, it all just feels totally messy, disjointed and made up by someone who really hasn’t made any attempt at understanding whatever genre this is supposed to be.
So, at the end of 12%, NO THANK YOU!
Paolo’s Page
#paolobacigalupi #whataloadofcrap
Tales from the Edge: Escalation — Anthology
Standalones
Welcome to the Edge — Stephen Gaskell
Remainers — Alastair Reynolds
Little Bots — Rob Ziegler
Over You — Jaine Fenn
The Spaces Between Us — Jeff Carlson
Losses We Bear — Aliette de Bodard
Fleet Champion — Tomas L. Martin
The Daughter of Arin — Jon Cooper
The Flesh of the World — Karin Lowachee
A Keeper’s Duty — Stephen Gaskell
Moon Desert — Liz Williams
#scifi #alastairreynolds #aliettedebodard
Shine — Anthology
Standalones
The Earth of Yunhe – 2010 — Eric Gregory
The Greenman Watches the Black Bars go Up, Up, Up – 2010 — Jacques Barcia
Overhead – 2010 — Jason Stoddard
Summer Ice – 2006 — Holly Phillips
Sustainable Development – 2010 — Paula R. Stiles
The Church of Accelerated Redemption — Gareth L. Powell and Aliette de Bodard
The Solnet Ascendancy – 2010 — Lavie Tidhar
Twittering the Stars — Mari Ness
Seeds – 2010 — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
At Budokan — Alastair Reynolds
Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic) – 2010 — Gord Sellar
Scheherezade Cast in Starlight – 2010 — Jason Andrew
Russion Roulette 2020 – 2010 — Eva Maria Chapman
Castoff World – 2010 — Kay Kenyon
Paul Kishosha’s Children – 2010 — Ken Edgett
Ishin – 2010 — Madeline Ashby
#scifi #aliettedebodard #mariness #alastairreynolds
The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter — Alastair Reynolds
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift and Deep Navigation.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Fury — Alastair Reynolds
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift and Deep Navigation.
A super good story about the galactic emperor and his robot security assistant. And some koi carp as well.
I really enjoyed this, up there with Alastair’s usual interesting and very entertaining short-story/novella things.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice — Alastair Reynolds
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift and Deep Navigation.
A really good story that i so wished had gone on for longer. Reminds me a lot of the Ultras in Revelation Space.
Next up on Alastair’s timeline will be Soirée.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Zima Blue — Alastair Reynolds
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift, Zima Blue and Other Stories and the anthology, Love, Death + Robots: Volume One.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Beyond the Aquila Rift — Alastair Reynolds
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift, Zima Blue and Other Stories and the anthology, Love, Death + Robots: Volume One.
Another one of Alastairs moments playing with life suspension while in space flight. For those who have read all of the Revelation Space series you’ll know that this can cause really fucked up dreams and states of mind when you’re coming back out of suspension. Mix this state of mind with a spacers’ rumour that one day you’ll go so far you’ll end up beyond the Aquila Rift and you can really get a good head fuck going: with a nice twist at the end as well.
And the next book in Alastair’s publishing order will be Zima Blue.
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Zima Blue and Other Stories — Alastair Reynolds
I’ve rearranged the stories into date order, rather than the order they are in the collection: coz that’s juse how i roll, darlings. Obviously, you can read them in any order you chose as well.
Standalones
Enola – 1991
Digital to Analogue – 1992
Spirey and the Queen – 1996
Angels of Ashes – 1999
Merlin Series
Hideaway – 2000
Minla’s Flowers – 2007
Merlin’s Gun – 2000
Standalones
The Real Story – 2002
Everlasting – 2004
Beyond the Aquila Rift – 2005
Zima Blue – 2005
Understanding Space and Time – 2005
Signal to Noise – 2006
Cardiff Afterlife – 2009
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Fiction
. . .me thinks it’s a good time to re-read Asimov.
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
