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'''Alastair Preston Reynolds''' (born 13 March 1966) is a Welsh<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lithub.com/alastair-reynolds-on-trying-to-encompass-the-entire-history-of-science-fiction-in-one-novel/ | title=Alastair Reynolds on Trying to Encompass the Entire History of Science Fiction in One Novel | quote=although I'm Welsh and I live in Wales, half my family are from the West Country|date=4 November 2022 }}</ref> [[science fiction author]]. He specialises in [[hard science fiction]] and [[space opera]].

==Early life==
Reynolds was born in Wales and spent his early years in [[Cornwall]] before moving back to Wales, and later attended [[Newcastle University]], where he studied [[physics]] and [[astronomy]]. He subsequently earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in astrophysics from the [[University of St Andrews]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57659.html|title=Once a physicist: Alastair Reynolds|website=www.iop.org|access-date=26 August 2019|archive-date=26 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826132839/https://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57659.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Career ==

Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still a graduate student, in 1989–1991; they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]''.<ref name=GMSFBC/> In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into ''[[Revelation Space]]'', while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected. This ended in 1995 when his story "Byrd Land Six" was published, which he says marked the beginning of a more serious phase of writing. {{As of|2011}} he has published over forty shorter works and nine [[novel]]s. His works are hard science fiction, typically in the sub-genres of [[space opera]] and [[Noir fiction|noir]], and reflect his professional expertise with physics and astronomy, included by extrapolating future technologies in terms that are consistent, for the most part, with current science. Reynolds has said he prefers to keep the science in his books to what he personally believes will be possible, and he does not believe faster-than-light travel will ever be possible, but that he adopts science he believes will be impossible when it is necessary for the story.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6608459.stm Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world'] BBC News Monday, 30 April 2007</ref> Most of Reynolds's novels contain multiple storylines that originally appear to be completely unrelated, but merge later in the story.{{citation needed| date = May 2025 }}

Eight of his novels and several of his short stories take place within one consistent future universe, usually now called the [[Revelation Space universe]] after the first novel published in it, although it was originally developed in short stories for several years before the first novel. Although most characters appear in more than one novel, the works set within this future timeline rarely have the same [[protagonist]]s twice. Often the protagonists from one work belong to a group that is regarded with suspicion or enmity by the protagonists of another work. While a great deal of science fiction reflects either very optimistic or [[dystopia]]n visions of the human future, Reynolds's future worlds are notable in that human societies have not departed to either positive or negative extremes, but instead are similar to those of today in terms of moral ambiguity and a mixture of cruelty and decency, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and opportunity, despite their technology being dramatically advanced.

The ''Revelation Space'' series includes eight novels, seven novellas, and six short stories set over a span of several centuries, spanning approximately AD 2205 to 40&nbsp;000, although the novels are all set in a 300-year period spanning from 2427 to 2727. In this universe, extraterrestrial sentience exists but is elusive, and [[interstellar travel]] is primarily undertaken by a class of vessel called a lighthugger which only approaches the speed of light ([[faster than light]] travel is possible, but it is so dangerous that no race uses it). [[Fermi paradox|Fermi's paradox]] is explained as resulting from the activities of an inorganic alien race referred to by its victims as the Inhibitors, which exterminates sentient races if they proceed above a certain level of technology. The tetralogy consisting of ''[[Revelation Space]]'', ''[[Redemption Ark]]'', ''[[Absolution Gap]]'', and ''Inhibitor Phase'' deals with humanity coming to the attention of the Inhibitors and the resultant war between them.<ref name="GMSFBC" />

''[[Century Rain]]'' takes place in a future universe independent of the ''Revelation Space'' universe and has different rules, such as faster-than-light travel being possible through a system of portals similar to [[wormholes]]. ''Century Rain'' also departs substantially from Reynolds's previous works, both in having a protagonist who is much closer to the perspective of our real world (in fact he is from a version of our past), serving as a proxy for the reader in confronting the unfamiliarity of the advanced science fiction aspects and in having a much more linear storytelling process. Reynolds's previous protagonists started out fully absorbed in the exoticisms of the future setting and his previous ''Revelation Space'' works have several interlinked story threads, not necessarily contemporaneous. According to Reynolds, while ''Century Rain'' is a "personal favorite", he has "sworn there will never be a sequel".<ref name=ARcom>{{cite web |title=Novels {{!}} Alastair Reynolds |url=http://www.alastairreynolds.com/novels/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |website=www.alastairreynolds.com}}</ref>

''[[Pushing Ice]]'' is also a standalone story, with characters from much less distant in the future than in any of his other novels, set into a framework storyline that extends much further into the future of humanity than any of his previous novels. It contains an alternative interpretation of the [[Fermi paradox]]: intelligent sentient life in this universe is extremely scarce. Reynolds states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the ''[[Pushing Ice]]'' setting to write a sequel.<ref name="fut">{{cite web |last1=Ulen |first1=Neal |title=An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds |url=https://futurism.media/an-interview-with-best-selling-science-fiction-author-alastair-reynolds |website=Futurism |access-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117121243/https://futurism.media/an-interview-with-best-selling-science-fiction-author-alastair-reynolds |archive-date=17 January 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''[[The Prefect]]'' marked a return to the ''Revelation Space'' universe. Like ''[[Chasm City]]'', it is a stand-alone novel within that setting. It is set prior to any of the other ''Revelation Space'' novels, though still 200 years after the original human settlement is established on the planet Yellowstone in the [[Epsilon Eridani]] system. It was published in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2007. Since its publication, the title of ''[[The Prefect]]'' has been changed to ''[[The Prefect|Aurora Rising]]'' to more align with the name of the sequel, ''[[Elysium Fire]]'', which was published in 2018, marking the first novel length return to the ''Revelation Space'' universe since 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2017/07/elysium-fire-and-new-title-for-prefect.html|title=Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Elysium Fire and a new title for The Prefect|first=Al|last=R|date=25 July 2017}}</ref> This sub-series within the ''Revelation Space'' universe is now called ''The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies''. Reynolds states that he has "tentative plans for three more Dreyfus titles, with an arc that would eventually take him beyond Yellowstone, and then back again."<ref name="fut"/>

''[[House of Suns]]'' is a standalone novel set in the same universe as his novella "Thousandth Night" from the ''[[One Million A.D.]]'' anthology. It was released in the UK on 17 April 2008 and in the US on 2 June 2009. Reynolds described it as "Six million years in the future, starfaring clones, tensions between human and robot metacivilisations, King Crimson jokes."<ref name=ARcom /> As with ''Pushing Ice'', Reynolds also states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the ''[[House of Suns]]'' setting to write a sequel.<ref name="fut"/>

''[[Terminal World]]'', published in March 2010 was described by Reynolds as "a kind of [[steampunk]]-tinged planetary romance, set in the distant future". As with ''Century Rain'', Reynolds has said that he does not plan any further work in the universe of ''Terminal World''.<ref name=ARcom />

In June 2009 Reynolds signed a new deal, worth £1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/22/alastair-reynolds-million-pound-deal|title=Science fiction author lands £1m book deal|date=22 June 2009|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

Between 2012 and 2015 Reynolds released three novels set in a new universe called ''Poseidon's Children'': ''[[Blue Remembered Earth]]'' (2012), ''[[On the Steel Breeze]]'' (2014), and ''[[Poseidon's Wake]]'' (2015).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://voxish.tripod.com/teahouse/index.blog/1889855/on-racefail/|title=Teahouse on the Tracks (Alastair Reynolds)|website=voxish.tripod.com|access-date=30 August 2021|archive-date=30 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830153213/https://voxish.tripod.com/teahouse/index.blog/1889855/on-racefail/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ARNov">{{cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Alastair|title=Novels|url=http://voxish.tripod.com/novels.html|access-date=23 June 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607091429/http://voxish.tripod.com/novels.html|archive-date=7 June 2014}}</ref> The novels comprise a hard science fiction trilogy dealing with the expansion of the human species into the [[Solar System]] and beyond, and the emergence of Africa as a spacefaring, technological super-state.

His ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''[[Harvest of Time]]'' was published in June 2013.<ref name="ARNov" />

His forthcoming work includes "Banish", which will be appearing in ''Multiverses'' by Preston Grassmann (ed.) for Titan Publishing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forthcoming Stories {{!}} Alastair Reynolds |url=https://www.alastairreynolds.com/stories/forthcoming-stories/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=www.alastairreynolds.com}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

Reynolds's fiction has received three awards and several other nominations. His second novel ''Chasm City'' won the 2001 British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bsfa.co.uk/Awards/BSFAAwardsPastAwards/tabid/70/Default.aspx|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430165143/http://www.bsfa.co.uk/Awards/BSFAAwardsPastAwards/tabid/70/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Past BSFA awards|archivedate=30 April 2009}}</ref> His short story "Weather" and "Zima Blue" won the Japanese National Science Fiction Convention's [[Seiun Award]] for Best Translated Short Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Seiun2008.html#shf |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2008 Seiun Awards |publisher=Locusmag.com |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526215919/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Seiun2008.html#shf |archive-date=26 May 2013  }}</ref> His novels ''Absolution Gap'' and ''The Prefect'' have also been nominated for previous BSFA awards.<ref name="bsfanom-absgap">{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?151679 |title=Bibliography: Absolution Gap |publisher=Isfdb.org |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="bsfanom-prefect">{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?357261 |title=Bibliography: The Prefect |publisher=Isfdb.org |date=25 June 2007 |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> Reynolds has been nominated for the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] three times, for his novels ''Revelation Space'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2001.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award |publisher=Locusmag.com |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917033947/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2001.html |archive-date=17 September 2012 }}</ref> ''Pushing Ice''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2006.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award |publisher=Locusmag.com |date=25 April 2006 |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917132618/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2006.html |archive-date=17 September 2012 }}</ref> and ''House of Suns''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2009.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award |publisher=Locusmag.com |date=29 April 2009 |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917132623/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Clarke2009.html |archive-date=17 September 2012 }}</ref> In 2010, he won the [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History]] for his short story "The Fixation".<ref name="bsfa-fix">{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?995967 |title=Bibliography: The Fixation |publisher=Isfdb.org |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> His novella ''Troika'' made the shortlist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.renovationsf.org/hugo-intro.php#nominees |title=Renovation – Hugo Awards |publisher=Renovationsf.org |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429050214/http://www.renovationsf.org/hugo-intro.php |archive-date=29 April 2011 }}</ref> for the 2011 [[Hugo Awards]].<ref name="hugo-troika">{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1148295 |title=Bibliography: Troika |publisher=Isfdb.org |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref><ref>Locus, [http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/2011-hugo-and-campbell-awards-winners/ 2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners] (access date 21 August 2011)</ref> His Novel ''Revenger'' received the 2017&nbsp;[[Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/06/do-not-touch-2017-locus-awards-winners/|title=2017 Locus Awards Winners|date=24 June 2017|website=www.locusmag.com|publisher=Locus Online News|language=en|access-date=25 June 2017}}</ref>&nbsp;

==Adaptations==
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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reynolds |first1=Alastair |title=Love, Death & Robots |url=https://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2019/03/love-death-robots.html |website=Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon (author's official blog) |date=10 March 2019 |access-date=12 March 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1991, Reynolds moved to [[Noordwijk]] in the Netherlands, where he met his wife Josette (who is from France) and worked for the [[European Space Research and Technology Centre]] (part of the [[European Space Agency]]) until 2004, when he left to pursue writing full-time.<ref name="GMSFBC"/> He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near [[Cardiff]].

==Publications==

===Novels===

====[[Revelation Space series|''Revelation Space'' series]]====

:''The Inhibitor Sequence:''
:#''[[Revelation Space]]''. London: Gollancz, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-44-100942-8}}
:#''[[Redemption Ark]]''. London: Gollancz, 2002. {{ISBN|0-575-06879-5}}
:#''[[Absolution Gap]]''. London: Gollancz, 2003. {{ISBN|0-575-07434-5}}
:#''Inhibitor Phase''. London: Gollancz, 2021. {{ISBN|978-0-57-509071-2}}

:''The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies:''
:#''[[The Prefect|The Prefect/Aurora Rising]]''. London: Gollancz, 2007, {{ISBN|0-575-07716-6}}
:#''[[Elysium Fire]]''. London: Gollancz, 2018, {{ISBN|0-575-09058-8}}
:#''[[Machine Vendetta]]''. London: Gollancz, 2024, {{ISBN|978-0-316-46285-3}}

:''Standalone:''
::*''[[Chasm City]]''. London: Gollancz, 2001. {{ISBN|0-575-06877-9}}

====Poseidon's Children Universe====
# ''[[Blue Remembered Earth]]''. London: Gollancz, 2012, {{ISBN|0-575-08827-3}}
# ''[[On the Steel Breeze]]''. London: Gollancz, 2013, {{ISBN|0-575-09045-6}}<ref>{{cite book|title=On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children): Amazon.co.uk: Alastair Reynolds: Books |id={{ASIN|0575090456|country=uk}} }}</ref><ref>[http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/alastair-reynolds-on-the-steel-breeze-cover-art-reveal Alastair Reynolds – On the Steel Breeze cover art reveal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223023946/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/alastair-reynolds-on-the-steel-breeze-cover-art-reveal |date=23 December 2015 }}</ref>
# ''[[Poseidon's Wake]]''. London: Gollancz, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0-575-09049-1}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780575090491 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118213947/https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780575090491 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 January 2015 |title=Alastair Reynolds – Poseidon's Wake – Orion Publishing Group |publisher=Orionbooks.co.uk |access-date=16 January 2015 }}</ref>

====''Doctor Who'' ([[Third Doctor]])====
* ''[[Harvest of Time]]''. BBC Books, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1-849-90418-6}}

==== Other ====
* ''[[Century Rain]]''. London: Gollancz, 2004. {{ISBN|0-575-07436-1}}
* ''[[Pushing Ice]]''. London: Gollancz, 2005. {{ISBN|0-575-07438-8}}
* ''[[House of Suns]]''. London: Gollancz, 2008, {{ISBN|0-575-07717-4}}
* ''[[Terminal World]]''. London: Gollancz, 2010, {{ISBN|0-575-07718-2}}
* ''[[The Medusa Chronicles]]'' (with [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]]). London: Gollancz, 2016, {{ISBN|978-1473210189}}
* ''Eversion''. London: Gollancz, 2022 {{ISBN|978-0575090767}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2021/08/ive-delivered-new-book.html |title=I've delivered a new book |last=Reynolds |first=Alastair | website=Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon (Reynolds' personal blog)|date=4 August 2021 }}</ref>
* ''Halcyon Years''. London: Gollancz, 2025 {{ISBN|978-1399611763}}

===Young adult novels===

====Revenger Universe====
#''[[Revenger (novel)|Revenger]]''. London: Gollancz, 2016, {{ISBN|978-057-509053-8}}
#''[[Shadow Captain (novel)|Shadow Captain]]''. London: Gollancz, 2019, {{ISBN|978-057-509063-7}}
#''[[Bone Silence]]''. London: Gollancz, 2020, {{ISBN|978-057-509067-5}}

===Collections===
* ''[[Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days]]''. London: Gollancz, 2003. {{ISBN|0-575-07526-0}}
**''Diamond Dogs'' – Originally published as a chapbook from [[PS Publishing]] (2001, {{ISBN|1-902880-27-7}}); reprinted in ''Infinities'' (2002), [[Peter Crowther]], ed.
** ''Turquoise Days'' – Originally published as a chapbook from Golden Gryphon (2002, no ISBN); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection]]'' (2003, {{ISBN|0-312-30860-4}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in ''[[Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels]]'' (2007, {{ISBN|0-312-36342-7}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.
* ''[[Zima Blue and Other Stories]]''. San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006. {{ISBN|1-59780-058-9}} (Contains nearly all of the author's non-Revelation Space universe stories at the time of publication). Reprinted as ''Zima Blue and Other Stories.'' London: Gollancz, 2009. {{ISBN|0-575-08405-7}} (British edition has additional stories 1) Cardiff Afterlife; 2) Minla's Flowers; 3) Digital to Analogue; 4) Everlasting) not included in the original publication. Introduction by [[Paul McAuley|Paul J. McAuley]].)
** "Enola" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #54 (December 1991).
** "Digital to Analogue" – Originally published in ''[[In Dreams (book)|In Dreams]]'' (1992), [[Paul J. McAuley]] and [[Kim Newman]], eds.., Limited Edition
** "Spirey and the Queen" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #108 (June 1996); reprinted in ''[[Future War]]'' (1999, {{ISBN|0-441-00639-6}}), [[Gardner Dozois]] and [[Jack Dann]], eds..; and in ''[[The Space Opera Renaissance]]'' (2006), [[David G. Hartwell]] & [[Kathryn Cramer]], eds.; and posted free online at [[Infinity Plus]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/spirey.htm |title=Spirey and the Queen – a novelette by Alastair Reynolds |publisher=Infinityplus.co.uk |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref>
** "Angels of Ashes" – Originally published in ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'' (July 1999).
** "Merlin's Gun" – Originally published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' (May 2000).; and in ''[[The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-7867-1727-9}}), [[Mike Ashley (writer)|Mike Ashley]], ed.
** "Hideaway" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #157 (July 2000).
** "The Real Story" – Originally published in ''[[Mars Probes]]'' (2002), Peter Crowther, ed..
** "Everlasting" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #193 (Spring 2004).
** "Beyond the Aquila Rift" – Originally published in ''[[Constellations (2005 book)|Constellations]]'' (2005), Peter Crowther, ed.; reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|0-312-35334-0}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in ''[[Year's Best SF 11]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-06-087341-7}}), [[David G. Hartwell]] and [[Kathryn Cramer]], eds..
** "Zima Blue" – Originally published in ''[[Postscripts]]'' # 4 (Summer 2005); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|0-312-35334-0}}), Gardner Dozois, ed..
** "Signal to Noise" – Originally published in ''Zima Blue and Other Stories'', (2006); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-312-36335-2}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.
** "Cardiff Afterlife" – Originally published in the reprint of ''Zima Blue and Other Stories''
** "Understanding Space and Time" – Originally published in a limited edition of 400 copies for the [[Novacon]] 35 Sci Fi convention; reprinted in ''Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-8095-5649-6}}), Rich Horton, ed.; and in ''Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005'' (2006), [[Jonathan Strahan]], ed.
** "Minla's Flowers" – Originally published in ''[[The New Space Opera]]'' (2007, {{ISBN|978-0-06-084675-6}}), Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, eds.
*''[[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'')
** "Great Wall of Mars" – Originally published in ''[[Spectrum SF]]'' #1 (February 2000); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection]]'' (2001, {{ISBN|0-312-27465-3}}), [[Gardner Dozois]], ed.
** "Glacial" – Originally published in ''Spectrum SF'' #5 (March 2001); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection]]'' (2002, {{ISBN|0-312-28879-4}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in ''[[Year's Best SF 7]]'' (2002, {{ISBN|0-06-106143-3}}), [[David G. Hartwell]] & [[Kathryn Cramer]], eds.
** "Weather" – Originally published in ''Galactic North'' (2006)
** "Grafenwalder's Bestiary" – Originally published in ''Galactic North'' (2006)
** "Nightingale" – Originally published in ''Galactic North'' (2006); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-312-36335-2}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.
** "Dilation Sleep" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #39 (September 1990).
** "A Spy in Europa" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #120 (June 1997); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection]]'' (1998, {{ISBN|0-312-19033-6}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and posted free online at Infinity Plus<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/europa.htm |title=A Spy in Europa – a short story by Alastair Reynolds |publisher=Infinityplus.co.uk |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref>
** "Galactic North" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #145 (July 1999); reprinted in ''Space Soldiers'' (2001, {{ISBN|978-0-441-00824-7}}), Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds.; and in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection]]'' (2000, {{ISBN|0-312-26417-8}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in ''Hayakawa's SF'' magazine.
*''[[Deep Navigation]]''. Framingham, MA: [[New England Science Fiction Association|NESFA]] Press, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-886778-90-0}} (Limited edition containing stories either not included in, or published after the earlier collections. Introduction by [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]].)
** "Nunivak Snowflakes" – Originally published in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' #36 (June 1990)..
** "Byrd Land Six" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #96 (June 1995); reprinted in ''[[The Ant Men of Tibet and Other Stories]]'' (2001, {{ISBN|1-903468-02-7}}), [[David Pringle]], ed.
** "On the Oodnadatta" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #128 (February 1998)..
** "Stroboscopic" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' #134 (August 1998); reprinted in ''[[Dangerous Games (anthology)|Dangerous Games]]'' (2007, {{ISBN|978-0-441-01490-3}}), Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, eds.
** "Viper" – Originally published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' (December 1999)..
** "Fresco" – Originally published in the ''[[UNESCO]] Courier'' (May 2001)..
** "Feeling Rejected" – Originally published in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' (2005)..
** "Tiger, Burning" – Originally published in ''[[Forbidden Planets (Crowther book)|Forbidden Planets]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|0-7564-0330-8}}), Peter Crowther, ed.; reprinted in ''[[Year's Best SF 12]]'' (2007, {{ISBN|978-0-06-125208-2}}), David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds..
** "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter" – Originally published in ''Interzone'' No. 209 (April 2007); reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection]]'' (2006, {{ISBN|978-0-312-37860-8}}), Gardner Dozois, ed..
** "Soirée" – Originally published in ''Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association'' (March 2008), [[Ian Whates]], ed..
** "The Star-Surgeon's Apprentice" – Originally published in ''[[The Starry Rift]]'' (April 2008), Jonathan Strahan, ed..
** "Fury" – Originally published in ''Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy'', (November 2008)..
** ''The Fixation'' – Originally published in a [[Finnish language]], ''Hannun basaarissa'' a limited edition booklet of about 200 copies in tribute to Hannu Blommila in Finland (2007); reprinted in ''The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3'' (February 2009), George Mann, ed..
** "The Receivers" – Originally published in ''[[Other Earths]]'' (April 2009), [[Nick Gevers]] and [[Jay Lake]], eds.
** "Monkey Suit" – Originally published in ''Death Ray'' #20 (July 2009) (a ''Revelation Space'' story).
* ''[[Beyond the Aquila Rift]].'' London: Gollancz, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1473216358}}
** "Great Wall of Mars" – previously collected in ''Galactic North''
** "Weather" – previously collected in ''Galactic North''
** "Beyond the Aquila Rift" – previously collected in ''Zima Blue and Other Stories''
** "Minla's Flowers" – previously collected in ''Zima Blue and Other Stories''
** "Zima Blue" – previously collected in ''Zima Blue and Other Stories''
** "Fury" – previously collected in ''Deep Navigation''
** "The Star Surgeon's Apprentice" – previously collected in ''Deep Navigation''
** "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter" – previously collected in ''Deep Navigation''
** ''Diamond Dogs'' – previously collected in ''Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days''
** ''Thousandth Night'' – originally published in ''One Million A.D.'' (2005), Gardner Dozois, ed.
** ''Troika'' – originally published in ''Godlike Machines'' (2010), Jonathan Strahan, ed.; 
** "Sleepover" –  originally published in ''The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF'' (May 2010), Mike Ashley, eds.
** "Vainglory" –  originally published in ''Edge of Infinity'' (December 2012), Jonathan Strahan, ed.
** "Trauma Pod" – originally published in ''Armored'' (April 2012), John Joseph Adams, ed
** "The Last Log of the Lachrimosa" – originally published in ''Subterranean Online'' (July 2014) (a ''Revelation Space'' story)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2014/the_last_log_of_the_lachrimosa_by_alastair_reynolds |title=The Last Log of the Lachrimosa |access-date=10 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110114616/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2014/the_last_log_of_the_lachrimosa_by_alastair_reynolds |archive-date=10 November 2014}}</ref>
** "The Water Thief" – originally published in ''Arc 1.1 / The Future Aways Wins'' (February 2012), Sumit Paul-Choudhury, [[Simon Ings]], eds.
** "The Old Man and the Martian Sea" – originally published in Life on Mars (April 2011), Jonathan Strahan, ed.
** "In Babelsberg" – originally published in ''Reach for Infinity'' (May 2014), Jonathan Strahan, ed.<ref name="Tor Infinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/2014/06/12/book-review-anthology-reach-for-infinity-jonathan-strahan/ |title=Step into the Stars: ''Reach for Infinity'', ed. Jonathan Strahan |work=[[Tor.com]] |first=Niall |last=Alexander |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref>
* ''Belladonna Nights and Other Stories.'' [[Subterranean Press]], October 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://locusmag.com/forthcomingbooks/|title=Forthcoming Books|date=29 August 2017}}</ref>
** "Belladonna Nights" – originally published in ''The Weight of Words'', [[Subterranean Press]] (December 2017), Dave McKean and William Schafer eds. (a ''House of Suns'' story)
** "Different Seas" – originally published in ''Twelve Tomorrows'', MIT Press (May 2018), Wade Rush ed.
** "For the Ages" – originally published in ''Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction'' (November 2011), Ian Whates, ed.
** "Visiting Hours" - originally published in ''Megatech: Technology in 2050'' (2017)
** "Holdfast" – originally published in ''Extrasolar'', PS Publishing (August 2017), Nick Gevers ed.
** "The Lobby" – originally published in ''[[Postscripts|Memoryville Blues (Postscripts #30/31)]]'', [[Peter Crowther]] & [[Nick Gevers]], ed. 
** "A Map of Mercury" – originally published in ''The Lowest Heaven'' (June 2013)<ref name="heaven">{{cite web|url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/the-lowest-heaven-anthology-table-of-contents-announced |title=The Lowest Heaven anthology table of contents announced |publisher=Upcoming4.me |year=2013 |access-date=23 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324044426/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/the-lowest-heaven-anthology-table-of-contents-announced |archive-date=24 March 2013 }}</ref>
** "Magic Bone Woman" - originally published in ''Consequences'' (2011)
** "Providence" – originally published in ''2001: An Odyssey in Words'', Newcon Press (March 2018), Ian Whates and Tom Hunter eds.
** "Wrecking Party" – originally published in ''Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West'' (May 2014), John Joseph Adams, ed.
** "Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee" - originally published in ''Bridging Infinity'', Solaris Press (October 2016), Jonathan Strahan ed.
** "Death's Door" – originally published in ''Infinity's End'', Solaris Press (July 2018), Jonathan Strahan ed.
** "A Murmuration" – originally published in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' (Mar–Apr 2015)
** "Open and Shut" – originally published online by Gollancz (January 2018) (a ''Revelation Space'' story).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gollancz.co.uk/2018/01/open-shut-short-story-alastair-reynolds/ |title=Open and shut |access-date=14 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115124801/https://www.gollancz.co.uk/2018/01/open-shut-short-story-alastair-reynolds/ |archive-date=15 January 2018 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
** "Plague Music"- originally published in ''Belladonna Nights'' (2021) (a ''Revelation Space'' story)
** "Night Passage" – Published in ''Infinite Stars'', Titan Books (October 2017), Bryan Thomas Schmidt ed. (a ''Revelation Space'' story)

===Novellas===
* "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]].
* "The Six Directions of Space", {{ISBN|978-1596061842}} – Originally published in ''[[Galactic Empires (anthology)|Galactic Empires]]'' (September 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfbc.com/doc/full_site_enrollment/detail/fse_product_detail.jhtml?repositoryId=783792B510|title=Science Fiction Book Club}}{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>), Gardner Dozois, ed.
* "Troika", {{ISBN|978-1596063761}} – Originally published in ''Godlike Machines'' (2010), Jonathan Strahan, ed.;<ref name="GMSFBC"/>
* "Slow Bullets" (2015), {{ISBN|978-1616961930}}
* "The Iron Tactician" (2016), {{ISBN|978-1910935309}}
* "Permafrost" (2019), {{ISBN|9781250303561}}
* "The Dagger in Vichy" (2025), {{ISBN|9781645242802}}

===Uncollected short fiction===
* "The Big Hello" – Originally published in German translation in a convention program.
* "The Manastodon Broadcasts" – Originally published in ''Aberrant Dreams I: The Awakening'' (December 2008), Joe Dickerson, Ernest G. Saylor and Lonny Harper, eds.
* "Scales" – Originally published in ''[[The Guardian]]'' (2009); and posted free online at ''[[Lightspeed (magazine)|Lightspeed]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Alastair Reynolds |url=http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/scales/ |title=Scales by Alastair Reynolds |publisher=Lightspeed Magazine |date=17 January 2012 |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> 
* "Lune and the Red Empress" with [[Liz Williams]], originally published in the 2010 Eastercon souvenir booklet.
* "At Budokan" – Originally published in ''Shine'' (March 2010), Jetse de Vries, ed.
* "Ascension Day" – Originally published in ''Voices from the Past'' (May 2011), reprinted in ''[[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection]]'' (2012, {{ISBN|978-1-250-00354-6}}), Gardner Dozois, ed.
* "Sad Kapteyn" – Originally published online by the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ph.qmul.ac.uk/ancient-worlds-around-kapteyns-star |title=Sad Kapteyn |access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref>
* "Remainers" – Originally published in ''Tales from the Edge: Escalation'', Spiral Arm Studios (July 2017), Stephen Gaskell ed.
* "Polished Performance" – Published in ''Made To Order: Robots and Revolution'', Solaris Press (March 2020), Jonathan Strahan ed.
* "Things to Do In Deimos When You're Dead" - Published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' (September/October 2022)
* "End User" – Published online on [[Medium (website)|Medium]] (June 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://auki.medium.com/end-user-a31957f10adf |title=End User |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref>
* "Detonation Boulevard" – Published online in ''[[Tor.com]]'' (July 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2023/07/12/detonation-boulevard-alastair-reynolds/ |title=Detonation Boulevard |date=12 July 2023 |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>
* "Lottie and the River" – Published in ''[[New Scientist]]'' (16/23 December 2023)
* "The Scurlock Compendium" – To be published in ''To the Stars and Back: Stories in Honour of Eric Brown'' (May 2024)

===Essays, reporting and other contributions===
*{{cite journal |author=Reynolds, Alastair |date=2015 |title=Gerry Anderson saw the future |department=Book Club |journal=[[SciFiNow]] |volume=104 |pages=96–97}}

==See also==
* [[Night Shade Books]]
* [[Revelation Space universe]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Wikiquote}}
* [http://www.alastairreynolds.com/ Personal homepage]
* [http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/ Personal Blog, Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon]
* {{isfdb name|id=Alastair_Reynolds|name=Alastair Reynolds}}
* [https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Alastair_Reynolds.html Alastair Reynolds' online fiction] at ''Free Speculative Fiction Online''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061031050124/http://www.goldengryphon.com/turquoise-frame.html Golden Gryphon Press official site] – About chapbook ''Turquoise Days''

===Interviews===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vOEeENkzc&t=733s Interview] conducted by [[Moid Moidelhoff]] in 2021 for the [[YouTube]] channel [[Media Death Cult]].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090130055426/http://www.hardsciencefiction.rogerdeforest.com/?mode=8&id=2 Interview] conducted by Roger Deforest (2006)
*[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6608459.stm Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world'], interview by the [[BBC]] (2007)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117121243/https://futurism.media/an-interview-with-best-selling-science-fiction-author-alastair-reynolds An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds], interviewed by Neal Ulen, Futurism (2017)

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