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An interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilisation itself.
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Contemporary, epic, grave and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Alastair Reynolds
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Tachyon Publications, Gollancz
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616961947
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British science fiction author I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my scie
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