[extropy-chat] SF: Alastair Reynolds

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

I have not read any Alastair Reynolds <http://www.alastairreynolds.com/>' 
books yet, but after reading a good review I just ordered some from Amazon. 
Especially the last Reynolds' novel Century
Rain<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441012906/qid=1123670189/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-1604373-6143051?v=glance&s=books>seems
good (I imagine a mix of Morgan and Stross). From an Amazon review:
"There's
your regular space opera with a long-gone godlike alien race, alienesque 
superhumans, Earth devastated due to mankinds' mistakes, spaceships and 
space battles and all-powerful nanotechnology. Then there's a detective 
story set in Paris in the 50's, which also picks up a romantic twist as it 
goes on and gets mixed with the space-opera side, and in between there's a 
whiff of Stargate - yet it still manages to feel like hard scifi instead of 
light science-fantasy".
>From an Infinity Plus
interview<http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intar.htm>with
Reynolds: "A
strong new challenger to Stephen Baxter and Peter F. Hamilton for the 
leadership of British Hard SF, Alastair Reynolds brings to both his 
impressive short fiction and his commanding novels vision, clarity, and 
expertise. With a Ph.D. in astronomy and years of experience as an 
astrophysicist working for the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, he 
naturally has a thorough grasp of scientific detail, and a briskly 
authoritative narrative voice to convey it; his firm grounding in literary 
SF shows in the disciplined reach of his imagination, which takes in drastic 
transformations of humanity and the hidden drift of galactic history."
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