While there are author notes on each story, the publisher collected them all at the end rather than after each story. The impressive size of this collection enables several longer stories to be included one is over 100 pages and five more are over 50 pages. This very large (779 pages) collection of stories contains 18 of Reynolds' best short fiction. In fact, his novella Slow Bullets (not included in this collection) is a Hugo finalist this year and won the Locus award. Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds shows how he has been an exception to this trend, having written stories of various lengths throughout his career as a novelist. Today, most novelists never write stories and when they do it is usually tied to a novel's setting. The traditional career path of a science fiction writer used to be to start one's career writing short stories and then switch to writing novels, since writers make far more money from one novel than many stories. Links: Author's Website / Publisher's Book Page / Show Official Info / Suspenseful, erudite, and gracefully written, it is a significant accomplishment in its own right and a welcome addition to a remarkable body of work.Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair ReynoldsĮdited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer Troika is at once a wholly original account of First Contact and a meditation on time, history, and the essentially fluid nature of identity itself. What they discover-and what they endure in the process-forms the centerpiece of an enthralling, constantly surprising narrative.
During its third "apparition" in a remote corner of the galaxy, a trio of Russian cosmonauts approach this enigma and attempt to penetrate its mysteries. Troika tells the story of men and women confronting an enigma known as the Matryoshka, a vast alien construct whose periodic appearances have generated terror, wonder, and endless debate.
Reynolds brings that same deceptively effortless mastery to the shorter fictional forms, a fact that Troika, his elegant, compulsively readable new novella, amply demonstrates. In novels such as Chasm City and Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds established himself as an indisputable master of the far-flung intergalactic epic.
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