You’ll find this in the collection, Zima Blue and Other Stories.
A really enjoyable, short, post-apocalypse story. A bit confusing at first as it jumps back and forth between a human girl and an AI machine, but it all makes total sense at the end.
Next up from Alastair will be Digital to Analogue.
You’ll find this in the anthology, Deep Navigation.
Messages from the future found inside fish falling from the sky landing in front of the person the message was meant for.
Basically, someone from the future is being naughty and messing with the past in an indigenous community in Alaska.
Other than The Big Hello, of which i have no idea when published, this is Alastair’s first published story. So it’s very early Alastair Reynolds, so don’t be expecting Revelation Space or anything like it.
But it’s a reasonable, quirky, little read that’ll keep you happily ensconced in you favourite reading pit for a while.
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.
All stories copyright 2020.
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.
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.
Available in the collections, Beyond the Aquila Rift, Zima Blue and Other Stories and the anthology, Love, Death + Robots: Volume One.
Another one i lost the review for when my old website died.