- Fiction, Prisoners, Imaginary wars and battles, Amnesiacs
After billions of years of imprisonment, the vicious Sild have broken out of confinement. From a ruined world at the end of time, they make preparations to conquer the past, with the ultimate goal of rewriting history.
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Epic, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alastair Reynolds
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Broadway Paperbacks, Broadway Books, BBC Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781849904186
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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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