Alastair Reynolds

The thrilling finale to the Revenger Trilogy tells a desperate tale of greed, piracy, shadow governments, and ancient secrets that could unravel all of civilizationThe Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the twenty thousand worlds of the Congregation. They've plundered treasures untold, taken command of their own ship, and made plenty of enemies. But now they're being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. To stay one step ahead of their pursuers and answer the questions that have plagued them, they'll have to employ every dirty, piratical trick in the book.... Read more by Alastair Reynolds The Revenger Trilogy: RevengerShadow CaptainBone Silence

Kostajan ja Varjokapteenin päätähuimaava avaruusseikkailu nousee uusiin sfääreihin Nessin siskokset karkasivat kotoa liittyäkseen avaruuslaivan miehistöön. He taistelivat piraatteja ja hirviöitä vastaan ja selvisivät täpärästi verilöylyistä. Nyt he johtavat omaa pelkoa herättävää alustaan ja ovat vapaita valitsemaan seikkailunsa, mutta vanhan vihollisen kapteeni Bosan varjo seuraa heitä. Avaruudessa kukaan ei anna anteeksi, eikä kukaan unohda.

Korjaa menneisyys. Pelasta nykyisyys. Pysäytä tulevaisuus. Vuosi 2080: ryhmä tiedemiehiä pelaa uhkapeliä ihmiskunnan tulevaisuudella. Tavoite on tehdä pieni muutos menneisyyteen globaalin katastrofin välttämiseksi ja jättää kirjoitettu historia koskemattomaksi. Vuosi 2028: nuori nainen menee rutiininomaiseen aivoleikkaukseen, jonka seurauksena hän alkaa kuulla päässään ääntä, jolla tuntuu olevan oma tahto ja tarkoitusperät.

An unabridged collection spotlighting the "best of the best" hard science fiction stories published in 2018 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In "3-adica," by Greg Egan, sentient characters in an online multiplayer game hack the operating systems of their host machines to escape to a refuge that's only rumored to exist. Struggling colonists, on a world subject to periodic bursts of radiation from its primary's UV-emitting companion, go on an expedition to recover a critical package from Earth in "Umbernight," by Carolyn Ives Gilman. In "Icefall," by Stephanie Gunn, the Mountain on the planet, Icefall, holds the mystery to a lost colony and is an irresistible, fatal allure to the climbers of the universe; but no one ever returns from the Mountain. A mother seeks revenge on the doctor that changed her neuro-atypical son's personality with a deep brain stimulation implant in "The Woman Who Destroyed Us," by S. L. Huang. In "Entropy War," by Yoon Ha Lee, a conquering alien race at the height of their powers, retreats into an arkworld to win the ultimate war in the only way they can. An AI piloting an island-ship, that used to be the Earth, struggles to make sense of the universe as the last stars are dying out in "Cosmic Spring," by Ken Liu. In "Nothing Ever Happens on Oberon," by Paul McAuley, set in the author's Quiet War universe, a supervisor of a mining operation on the moon, Oberon, investigates the crash-landing of an ancient escape pod. In depression-era Alaska, a desperate bush pilot reluctantly accepts an illegal charter from a pair of scientists investigating a legendary mirage in Glacier National Park in "The Spires," by Alec Nevala-Lee. In "Providence," by Alastair Reynolds, the crew of a crippled starship, unable to complete its mission, decides to salvage its expedition by providing future exploratory ships with data they did not have. A disillusioned cr che manager leaves Luna to work on an asteroid-based cr che and then must decide whether or not to return to Luna in "Intervention," by Kelly Robson. And finally, an entity that controls the solar system wants aid against another entity from a reconstructed human it just created, in "Kindred," by Peter Watts.

Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox. 2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own – one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one. Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . .'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH.'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX.

Kostajan sankarisisaret uudessa henkeäsalpaavassa seikkailussa Adrana ja Fura ovat yhdistäneet voimansa aarrejahtiin avaruuden syvimpiin syövereihin. Heillä on komennossaan pahamainen merirosvoalus, jonka perässä ovat koko galaksin voimat. Vanhat kaunat, petos ja pakkomielteet tuovat matkaan uusia uhkaavia mutkia.

The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe. Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate for adventure, now Adrana is haunted by her enslavement on the feared pirate Bosa Sennen's ship. And rumors of Bosa Sennen's hidden cache of treasure have ensnared her sister, Fura, into single-minded obsession. Neither is safe; because the galaxy wants Bosa Sennen dead and they don't care if she's already been killed. They'll happily take whoever is flying her ship. Shadow Captain is a desperate story of cursed ships, vengeful corporations, and alien artifacts, of daring escapes and wealth beyond imagining . . . and of betrayal.

Palkittu teos "avaruusoopperan mestaritekijältä"Tähtienvälinen sota on vihdoin päättynyt, mutta Scurille rauhan aika jää lyhyeksi. Kapinalliset kaappaavat hänet, ja Scur pelastautuu varmalta kuolemalta vankienkuljetusalukselle. Pian Scurille valkenee, että aluksella jokin on pahasti pielessä - ja pelissä on paljon suuremmat panokset kuin hänen oma henkensä.

A brilliant new mystery from the author of THE PREFECT. Featuring Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge.

Produced to honour the centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's birth, this anthology acts as a fund raiser for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Original SF stories of precisely 2001 words from some of the biggest names in science fiction, including 10 winners of the Clarke Award and 13 authors who have been shortlisted, as well as non-fiction from thrice-winner China Mi ville and former judge Neil Gaiman. Contents: Introduction Golgotha - Dave Hutchinson The Monoliths of Mars - Paul McAuley Murmuration - Jane Rogers Ouroboros - Ian R MacLeod The Escape Hatch - Matthew De Abaitua Childhood's Friend - Rachel Pollack Takes from the White Hart - Bruce Sterling Your Death, Your Way, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed - Emma Newman Distraction - Gwyneth Jones Dancers - Allen Stroud Entropy War - Yoon Ha Lee The Ontologist - Liz Williams Waiting in the Sky - Tom Hunter The Collectors - Adrian Tchaikovsky I Saw Three Ships - Phillip Mann Before They Left - Colin Greenland Drawn From the Eye - Jeff Noon Roads of Silver, Paths of Gold - Emmi It ranta The Fugue - Stephanie Holman Memories of a Table - Chris Beckett Child of Ours - Claire North Would-Be A. I., Tell Us a Tale #241: Sell 'em Back in Time by Hali Hallison - Ian Watson Last Contact - Becky Chambers The Final Fable - Ian Whates Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae - Ian McDonald Child - Adam Roberts Providence - Alastair Reynolds 2001: A Space Prosthesis - The Extensions of Man - Andrew M. Butler (non-fiction) On Judging The Clarke Award - Neil Gaiman (non-fiction) Once More on the 3rd Law - China Mi ville (non-fiction)

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.

Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths. . . As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.

A rollercoaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of REVELATION SPACE: an interstellar thriller where nothing - and no one - is what they seem . . .

Odotettu jatko-osa Terästuulen yllä -romaanille”Lähettäkää Ndege.” Kaukaa saapuva viesti yllättää koko Cruciblen, sillä sitä ei oikeastaan pitäisi olla edes olemassa. Ja miksi juuri Ndege, joka kärsii tuomiotaan tehtyään kammottavan, kohtalokkaan virheen? Valtava retkikunta lähtee selvittämään viestin alkuperää. Sen on yllettävä kauemmas ja nopeammin kuin yksikään retkikunta aiemmin ja pystyttävä hyödyntämään kaikki olemassa oleva teknologia. Huikea matka muuttuu hengenvaaralliseksi kun käy ilmi, että viesti on kuultu muuallakin... ”Parasta nykyscifiä.” SFX Magazine

A superb collection of short fiction from 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES

A superb SF adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this Locus award winning novel is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artefacts and revenge.

Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . . and of vengeance. . . Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone Readers to find clues about their next score. But there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen, in particular. The galaxy is filled with treasures. . . if you have the courage to find them.